Reuters: Canada’s Mackenzie River basin needs better protection as a vast northern “refrigerator” slowing global climate change, experts said on Monday.
Canada’s longest river also needs a unifying plan to oversee water quality, wildlife and oil pollution that would be similar to European Union directives governing rivers such as the Rhine or Danube, they said.
There is now a patchwork of government and local rules for the 1,800-km-long (1,100-mile) river that flows into the Arctic Ocean through a basin…