Saturday, April 19, 2025
Great Lakes Champion Retires from the Public Service
U.S. Consul General Juan Alsace is retiring after 32 years of service to the country. Juan and his wife Nancy will start the next chapter…
International
Report: Indigenous Peoples Outperform Conventional Conservation
New research has suggested that Indigenous peoples and local communities dramatically outperform other methods to protect sensitive environments. The report, Cornered by Protected Areas, was…
World is Making Insufficient Progress on Clean Water and Sanitation
New reports find insufficient international progress on the UN Sustainable Development Goals for 2030, with a decided focus on SDG 6 for clean water and…
Recommendations to Address Toxic Flame Retardants in Great Lakes
Human exposure to polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE) flame retardants has increased exponentially over the last three decades and recent studies have linked this exposure with…
New Research: Stormwater Ponds Not Significant Emitters of Nitrous Oxide
Stormwater retention ponds aren’t a significant source of the greenhouse gas nitrous oxide emissions. This according to a new study, Sediment chemistry of urban stormwater ponds…
Survey Finds Increased, Binational Public Support for Great Lakes Restoration
Eighty eight percent of respondents believe protecting the Great Lakes is highly important and are willing to pay more to ensure their restoration, according to…
Pan African Institutions Strategize to Accelerate Infrastructure Delivery
At the end of June, the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) Agency, supported by the African Development Bank, the Regional Economic Communities, and other…
Researchers Accelerate Treatment Process of Radioactive Wastewater
Researchers from the University of Helsinki have managed to accelerate the process of removing radioactive strontium from contaminated water using electrospun sodium titanate fibres. The…
Flooding from Sea Level Rise May Cost the World $14 Trillion Annually
Failure to limit global warming to the two degrees Celsius will lead to sea level rise and dire global economic consequences, new research has warned.…
Tracking Reaction Pathways of Acetone Under Advanced Oxidation
Trace concentrations of synthetic chemicals expelled in effluent and discharged to lakes, rivers, and streams are found in extremely small concentrations, just nanograms or micrograms,…
Nanomaterials Linked to Algal Blooms in Wetlands and Other Freshwater
Researchers at Duke University have found that nanomaterials used in agriculture could lead to more algae outbreaks in wetlands and other freshwater bodies. In the…
Report on 2017 Flood of Lake Ontario & St. Lawrence River
A report released last week by the International Lake Ontario-St. Lawrence River Board (the Board) has provided a detailed account of the historic 2017 flood and the Board’s actions under Plan 2014 to regulate Lake Ontario outflows in the…
Stéphane Dion Leads Delegation at Dushanbe Water Conference
A delegation of Canadians led by Stéphane Dion, Prime Minister Trudeau’s Special Envoy to the European Union and Europe and Ambassador to Germany, participated in the…
Canadian Partnership to Build Nutrient Recovery Facility in Poland
A partnership was announced this week between Vancouver-based Ostara and Krevox to build a nutrient recovery facility at the Cielcza Sewage Treatment Plant to aid in…
Professor William D. Taylor Honoured with Lifetime Achievement Award
The International Association for Great Lakes Research (IAGLR) honoured William D. Taylor on Tuesday with its 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award. Presented at IAGLR’s 61st Annual Conference…
New Report: Only 14 Per Cent of the U.S. Water Workforce is Female
A new report from the Brookings Institution, which looks at the U.S. water sector, has generated a detailed and data-driven look at careers therein, finding…
U.S. & Cad. Great Lakes Mayors Call Out Isolationist Policies
At the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative annual conference in Ajax, Ontario, Canadian and US mayors celebrated the strong, integrated relationship on environment…
UN Agency Releases Sustainable Agriculture Guidance Document
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations has released a set of twenty inter-connected actions designed to show the impact sustainable agriculture…
Water Molecules Exhibit Two Different Forms of Chemical Reactivity
New research demonstrates water molecules exist in two different forms with almost identical physical properties, yet, different chemical reactivities. These results were reported by researchers…
Researchers Develop a Tracing Method to Follow Raindrops
Meteorologists have known for some time that rainfall forecasts have flaws, as failure to take into account factors such as evaporation can affect their accuracy. Now,…
U.S. Researchers Field Test a Prototype Water Harvesting Device
Last October, a University of California, Berkeley, team field tested a prototype water harvesting device in the Arizona desert, which was able to extract water…
Aquahacking for Great Lakes Finalists Selected
On Saturday while many Torontonians were breezily enjoying Lake Ontario’s waterfront, 16 teams of tech-savvy students were busy presenting solutions to Great Lakes water challenges…
Online Tracker, ErieStat, Launched for Lake Erie Phosphorus Reduction
The Great Lakes Commission (GLC) has launched ErieStat, a website that tracks progress toward the binational shared goal of reducing phosphorus in Lake Erie by 40 per cent, and reports…
Ballast Water Study Tracks Non-Indigenous Plankton in Lake Superior
The Great Waters Research Collaborative (GWRC), a project of the University of Wisconsin-Superior’s Lake Superior Research Institute (LSRI), released results of a study on non-indigenous species of plankton…