Saturday, July 12, 2025
Committed Climate Science in the Great Lakes
In its most recent newsletter, the Intergovernmental Joint Commission presented an updated assessment of the climate science being done in the Great Lakes basin. The…
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Lake Science: Water Clarity As Important As Air Temperatures in Response to Climate Change
A new paper released this week demonstrates how even small changes in water clarity over time can have big impacts on water temperatures. In a…
Infrastructure Upgrades Have Major Lake Effects in Drought
In Dartmouth, the Lake Major Water Treatment plant supplies a number of communities. At present, the elevation of Lake Major has dropped steadily since mid-August. Lake elevation currently sits at half a meter less than it did in 2015, having an elevation of approximately eighteen and a half meters compared to nineteen this time last year.
All-Female Sailing Expedition Surveys Microplastics in the Great Lakes Basin
A light breeze from the southwest catches the sails of our Catalina 42 as we manoeuvre her bow into the wind under the direction of…
EPA Awards 13 Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Shoreline Cities Grants Totalling Over $2 Million
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) has announced the recipients of Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI) grants totalling more than $2 million to 13 cities…
Feds Invest $1.7 Million in Freshwater Research at the Experimental Lakes Area
Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne, MP Bob Nault of Kenora, and the Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard, Dominic LeBlanc announced this week…
Government to Address Water Quality in Lake of the Woods Basin
The federal government has announced that it is taking action to address water quality and ecosystem health issues in Lake of the Woods. The government…
Canada and the U.S. Identified Eight Chemicals of Mutual Concern for the Great Lakes
The governments of Canada and the United States today announced that they have identified eight substances as chemicals of mutual concern under the Canada-U.S. Great…
Ontario Lieutenant Governor Meets With Teachers To Discuss Great Lakes Education
Ontario’s Lieutenant Governor Elizabeth Dowdeswell met with 100 teachers at Brantford Collegiate Institute this week at a two-day event aimed at empowering teachers to incorporate…
Fifty Organizations Make Recommendations To Strengthen The Fisheries Act
A new report calling on the government to make changes to the Fisheries Act is gaining support among a large number of Canadian scientists, First Nations groups,…
Federal Party Platforms and Great Lakes Issues
In anticipation of the upcoming federal election, the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative—a binational coalition of over 110 U.S. and Canadian mayors and local…
Canadian science sheds light on Lake Winnipeg health
Researchers in Manitoba are using “fingerprinting” technology to determine the source of phosphorous in Lake Winnipeg that is negatively impacting water quality. Nutrients entering Lake…
Mayors Push for Better Protection of the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Basin
Several Canadian mayors visited Parliament Hill on April 3, 2014 to make a case for better protection of the bodies of water for the first ever…
Experimental Lakes Area Research Station Saved
The Experimental Lakes Area (ELA) research centre—a collection of 58 lakes in northwestern Ontario where scientists have conducted environmental research for more than 40 years—is…
Microplastics a “Very Real Threat” to Great Lakes Cities
On October 29, the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative sent letters asking regulators and industry to commit to cleaning up microplastics in the…
Project to Improve B.C. Lake’s Water Quality Enters Fifth Stage
As part of a large scale project to improve the water quality of Williams Lake in central British Columbia, construction is set to begin on…
IJC Assesses Lakes Huron and Michigan’s Water Level Woes
The International Joint Commission (IJC) has recommended that the governments of Canada and the United States consider structural options for raising the water levels in…
Ontario Supporting the Experimental Lakes Area
Ontario is working collaboratively with the federal government, the Government of Manitoba and other partners to keep the Experimental Lakes Area (ELA) operational in 2013…
Harper Launches Phase Two Lake of Winnipeg Cleanup
Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced federal support for the second phase of the Lake Winnipeg Basin Initiative (LWBI) which will focus on improving water quality…
IJC to Hold Public Hearing on International Osoyoos Lake Agreement
The International Joint Commission (IJC) is holding public hearings on the renewal of Operating Orders for Osoyoos Lake July 24 in Oroville, Washington, and July 25…
Feds to Introduce Changes to Fisheries Act
Current rules for protecting fish habitat are “indiscriminate and unfocused,” according to Keith Ashfield, Minister of Fisheries and Oceans Canada. In a release today, the…
Selinger Unveils New Plan for Lake Winnipeg
The Government of Manitoba will take new action to protect the province’s water and save Lake Winnipeg, Premier Greg Selinger announced yesterday. “The stakes are…
Manitoba to Launch Action Plan for Lake Winnipeg: Selinger
The Government of Manitoba will take the steps necessary to save Lake Winnipeg, Premier Greg Selinger announced today, concluding Dr. Peter Leavitt’s five-year study of…
Canada-Ontario Great Lakes Agreement Extended
The 2007 Canada-Ontario Agreement Respecting the Great Lakes Basin Ecosystem (COA) has been extended to March 31, 2011. The agreement, signed in June 2007, was…