Added by NEWS WIRE on July 11, 2012.
One of Canada's oldest and most celebrated scientific research stations is racing against the clock to avoid having to close its doors.
The Kluane Lake Research Station, located in the Yukon adjacent to the largest non-polar icefield in the world, is one of a handful of scientific outposts to have its funding cut by the federal budget.
The Kluane Lake facility, which celebrated its 50th anniversary last year amid a $2-million renovation, was told in the spring that federal funding for its operations would be immediately discontinued.
CBC News has learned that its scientists unleashed a flurry of phone calls and letters that resulted in a moratorium on the decision and an extension of money to the cash-strapped station, administered by the University of Calgary's Arctic Institute of North America, that will keep it alive for several more months.
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