Climate change threatens northern Ontario's winter road system — so what can be done about it?

With a warmer start to winter and low levels of precipitation, road crews in northern Ontario have been working vigorously to get the routes to remote First Nations ready, even having to make their own snow. Here are the challenges faced by communities and their ideas on how to make roads more sustainable.

Climate change threatens northern Ontario's winter road system — so what can be done about it?
A person takes a selfie outside at night from the inside of a machine.

With a warmer start to winter and low levels of precipitation, road crews in northern Ontario have been working vigorously to get the routes to remote First Nations ready, even having to make their own snow. Here are the challenges faced by communities and their ideas on how to make roads more sustainable.