2024


Climate change is making Canada’s ice roads hard to navigate

Homa Kheyrollah Pour - Wilfrid Laurier University
Daniel Gaudet - Ɂek’wahtı̨dǝ́ (Chief) of the Délı̨nę Got’ı̨nę Government


Warmer winters are fuelling a growth in algal blooms across the Great Lakes

Nandita Basu - University of Waterloo
Nancy Goucher - University of Waterloo


2023


'Forever contaminant' road salts pose an icy dilemma: Do we protect drivers or our fresh water?

Jovana Radosavljevic - University of Waterloo
David L Rudolph - University of Waterloo
Fereidoun Rezanezhad - University of Waterloo
Jiangyue Ju - University of Waterloo
Nancy Goucher - University of Waterloo
Philippe Van Cappellen - University of Waterloo


Up in smoke: Human activities are fuelling wildfires that burn essential carbon-sequestering peatlands

Sophie Wilkinson - Simon Fraser University
Mike Waddington - McMaster University


2022


Groundwater — not ice sheets — is the largest source of water on land and most of it is ancient

Grant Ferguson - University of Saskatchewan
Jennifer C. McIntosh - University of Arizona


Living water: Northern Indigenous communities’ use and perceptions of drinking water

Mylène Ratelle - University of Waterloo
Jessie Yakeleya - Sahtu Renewable Resources Board


2021


2021 was a bad year for glaciers in western North America — and it's about to get much worse

Brian Menounos - University of Northern British Columbia


Peatlands protect against wildfire and flooding, but they’re still under attack in Canada

Edward Struzik - Queen's University, Ontario


COP26 deforestation deal key to slowing climate change, but Canada must tackle issues of carbon accounting and industry

Jennifer Baltzer - Wilfrid Laurier University
Oliver Sonnentag - Université de Montréal


Indigenous youth are playing a key role in solving urgent water issues

Elaine Ho-Tassone - University of Waterloo
Richelle Miller - Community partner, Co-ordinator of Music for the Spirit & Indigenous Visual Arts


To be resilient, the Canadian Prairie needs lots of wetlands

Colin Whitfield - University of Saskatchewan
Christopher Spence - University of Saskatchewan


2020


Climate change, pollution and urbanization threaten water in Canada

Corinne Schuster-Wallace - University of Saskatchewan
Robert Sandford - United Nations University
Stephanie Merrill - University of Saskatchewan


Collapsing permafrost is transforming Arctic lakes, ponds and streams

Philip Marsh - Wilfrid Laurier University
Evan Wilcox - Wilfrid Laurier University
Niels Weiss - Wilfrid Laurier University


Buried in mud: Wildfires threaten North American water supplies

François-Nicolas Robinne - University of Alberta
Dennis W Hallema - North Carolina State University
Kevin D. Bladon - Oregon State University


Extreme precipitation events have always occurred, but are they changing?

Francis Zwiers - University of Victoria
Ronald Stewart - University of Manitoba


2019


Climate policy should reflect the resilience of northern Indigenous communities

Mylène Ratelle - University of Waterloo
Francis Paquette - Université de Montréal


Stoking conflict between farming and conservation hurts everyone

Philip A Loring - University of Guelph
Sarah Minnes - University of Saskatchewan
Valencia Gaspard - University of Saskatchewan


The global race for groundwater speeds up to feed agriculture’s growing needs

Grant Ferguson - University of Saskatchewan
Jennifer C. McIntosh - University of Arizona


How Canada can solve its emerging water crisis

John Pomeroy - University of Saskatchewan
Chris DeBeer - University of Saskatchewan
Phani Adapa - University of Saskatchewan
Stephanie Merrill - University of Saskatchewan


Methane emissions from oil and gas exploration are under-reported

Greg McDermid - University of Calgary
Maria Strack - University of Waterloo


How to fight wildfires and climate change with wetlands

Mike Waddington - McMaster University
Sophie Wilkinson - McMaster University


Water-sharing experiment suggests people put their own survival first

Lori Bradford - University of Saskatchewan


Warmer, wetter climate benefits some birds as wetlands vanish

Chrystal Mantyka-Pringle - University of Saskatchewan
Lauren Bortolotti - University of Saskatchewan
Lionel Leston - University of Alberta


2018


How to improve government's use of science

Josh Cronmiller - University of Saskatchewan
Kelechi Nwanekezie - University of Saskatchewan
Magali F. Nehemy - University of Saskatchewan


As a water crisis looms in Cape Town, could it happen in Canada?

John Pomeroy - University of Saskatchewan