Tag: York University
Research: More algal blooms likely in Lake Erie as deep-water oxygen...
Toronto – Researchers at York University went searching for the fossilized remains of small insect larvae called chironomids, found in sediment in Lake Erie, to find...
Research: Are ice roads holding up under January’s unseasonable warmth?
Toronto - Vital winter ice road infrastructure may be cracking and sinking under the load of an unseasonably warm start to the new year...
York U researchers’ revamped AI tool makes water dramatically safer in...
Toronto – A team of researchers from York University’s Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research and Lassonde School of Engineering have revamped their Safe Water Optimization Tool (SWOT) with multiple innovations that...
Research: Lakes in hot water, climate change creating a cauldron of...
As intense heatwaves grip the United Kingdom, Spain, France and Portugal, at times exceeding temperatures 40C, as well as parts of North America and...
Northern Lakes at Risk of Losing Ice Cover Permanently: Research
York University researchers have found that close to 5,700 lakes in the Northern Hemisphere may permanently lose ice cover this century.
Those lakes include large...
New Freshwater Database Tells Water Quality Story for 12K Lakes Globally
York University researchers have created a publicly available water quality database that will help scientists monitor and manage the health of close 12,000 freshwater...
Top Five Research Stories of 2019
Of the news stories that examined new research in the water sector, the following five news stories that were the most read on Water...
York University Research Uses AI to Predict Flood Risk in Real...
Researchers from York University can now predict river water levels days in advance of floods using artificial intelligence and data from two rivers: the...
Research Shows Lake Ice May Disappear Across Northern Hemisphere
The iconic winter traditions of skating outdoors and ice fishing on a frozen lake could vanish across southern Canada and the Northern Hemisphere by...