The Yukon government will try to "nudge Mother Nature along" this winter, by hiring engineers to help the Yukon River freeze over at Dawson City. (Claudiane Samson/Radio-Canada)"Mother Nature is sort of a fickle mistress, and we're going to help her create an ice bridge across the Yukon River." Every winter, the Yukon government maintains an ice road crossing of the river at Dawson. The goal is to help ice form across the remaining band of open water. Neth says he's used such a technique elsewhere in Canada, including the high Arctic, but it's never been tried on the fast-moving Yukon River.

Source: CBC News December 22, 2017 00:56 UTC