Erin Matthews
USask News
October 23, 2025
From glacial pools to man-made reservoirs, Canada is home to more lakes than any other country in the world. These bodies of water are crucial to communities, providing year-round recreation, fishing, hydroelectric energy, and more.
The Sustainability Speakers Series is an event hosted by Saskatchewan Environmental Society volunteers in partnership with the Saskatoon Public Library. These free, in-person events are held in the Auditorium of Cliff Wright Library (located in the Lakewood Civic Centre, 1635 McKercher Drive) on Tuesday evenings at 6 pm.
October 21 / Can we save the Earth’s glaciers? 2025 — International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation
Dr. John Pomeroy will describe the impacts of climate warming and other changes causing the global retreat of mountain glaciers and why this matters for humanity. The impacts on water resources, sea levels, and ecosystems will be addressed and the prospects for glacier preservation in a time of global warming and the highest atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations in over two million years will be considered.
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Marguerite Xenopoulos, Trent University
Michael R. Twiss, Algoma University
The Conversation
October 16, 2025
Fifty years ago, winter didn’t just visit the Great Lakes — it took up residence. If you blinked too slowly, your eyelashes froze together. Standing on the ice at the edge of Lake Superior, just after an early January snowstorm, everything was white and still, except for the lake. The wind had swept across it revealing ice cracked along thunderous fractures…