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Great article about #BigAg...

riverraccoon.substack.com/p/se

"Water from the #RedRiver flows through #LakeWinnipeg on its journey to #HudsonBay. Lake Winnipeg is huge—the world’s 11th largest freshwater lake by surface area (even larger than Lake Ontario and about the same as Lake Erie) and has the world’s largest ‘lakeshed’, i.e. area of land draining to a lake. It supports a large commercial and sport fishery for several fish species including walleye, which are a peculiar green color there due to the mineral content of the water."

"The #water_quality in Lake Winnipeg is tanking because of “rapidly increased #livestock production and use of synthetic #fertilizer in the Red River Valley, with smaller contributions of phosphorus from the city of Winnipeg and other human development in the Red and Winnipeg River basins .” Nutrient-driven #toxic #algae blooms have doubled in size since the 1990s due to increases in Red River phosphorus levels, a common component of livestock manure."

A potential U.S. trade war has breathed some life into the fraught idea of shipping oil through Hudson Bay
Canada is suddenly considering its short- and long-term export and transport options for the oil industry, which includes breathing some life into the idea of transporting oil across northern Manitoba and filling tankers at a Hudson Bay port.
#trade #politics #oil #shipping #HudsonBay #Manitoba
cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/po

A potential U.S. trade war has breathed some life into the fraught idea of shipping oil through Hudson Bay
Canada is suddenly considering its short- and long-term export and transport options for the oil industry, which includes breathing some life into the idea of transporting oil across northern Manitoba and filling tankers at a Hudson Bay port.
#trade #politics #oil #shipping #HudsonBay #Manitoba
cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/po

Missing Global #Climate Target Could Spell Disaster for These #PolarBears
One group in #HudsonBay might have roughly a decade left because sea #ice is becoming too thin to support them as they hunt, according to new research. “We’ve known that the loss of #Arctic #seaice would spell disaster for polar bears, so this might be the first subpopulation that disappears.”
This year the eastern half of Hudson Bay went ice free a month earlier than usual.
nytimes.com/2024/06/13/climate
archive.ph/IDMlo

YORK FACTORY EXPRESS JOURNAL, 1847:
"Put ashore to supper and paddled all night, as there are now no more Rapids.
"Wednesday. Fine warm day. Arrived at York Factory at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. I find that the Columbia Letters I forwarded from Norway House have not yet come to hand here.
"Thursday. Very warm. Working in the Office at the Columbia Accounts. James Cromarty, a Postmaster, arrived with the Returns from Severn.
"Friday. Rain in the morning, but fine.... #HistoricJourney #HudsonBay

Dwindling sea ice linked to decline of Arctic foxes in Canada’s Hudson Bay

The fast disappearance of sea ice in #Canada’s #HudsonBay could be linked to a decline in #ArcticFoxes, according to new research. The findings suggest that, from 1990 to 2012, Arctic foxes have declined while #RedFoxes have remained stable. This decline in Arctic foxes is positively correlated to falling sea ice levels in the bay, according to the research.

carbonbrief.org/dwindling-sea-

I have shown here a few times already beautiful vortices in cloud fields downwind from islands. These vortices are a reflection of two-dimensional turbulence in the atmosphere which behaves as a fluid. Occasionally one can see such vortices also in water, when made visible by ice, for instance. This is a view of melting ice on #JamesBay and the southern #HudsonBay in #Canada. Image taken by @nasa satellite #Aqua on 28 June 2023.