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…
Sierra Bein
The Globe and Mail
September 15, 2025
John Pomeroy is familiar with Peyto Glacier’s rapid melting.
He’s a distinguished professor and director of the Global Water Futures Observatories at the University of Saskatchewan, and has studied the ice mass in Banff National Park since 2008, visiting several times a year to adjust weather stations and photograph changes.
But on a helicopter trip through the Canadian Rockies to the glacier one year ago, Prof. Pomeroy and his team of scientists gasped – stunned to see how much it had transformed since even his previous visit.
The United Nations World Water Development Report on Mountains and glaciers: Water towers
Session 2: Cooperation and participation for preserving mountains and glaciers: Focus on Europe and North America
September 17, 2025
15:00 – 16:30 CET
Andrea Woo
The Globe and Mail
September 5, 2025
As the helicopter turned toward Peyto Glacier, located in the Park Ranges of the Canadian Rockies, John Pomeroy and his team of scientists gasped.
Prof. Pomeroy, a distinguished professor and director of the Global Water Futures Observatories at the University of Saskatchewan, has studied the ice mass in Banff National Park since 2008, visiting several times a year to adjust weather stations and photograph changes.
He is familiar with the glacier’s rapid melting. It retreats tens of metres per year – 80 metres in 2021 alone. But on the helicopter ride last September, he was stunned to see how much it had transformed since even his previous visit…
John Smol, Sapna Sharma and Steven Cooke
The Globe and Mail
August 27, 2025
Canada is blessed with over nine million lakes, leading to the perception that we have endless freshwater resources. However, Canadian lakes – like lakes around the world – are under increasing environmental threats from multiple stressors, such as pollution, land-cover changes and invasive species, among other factors, many of which are now amplified due to climate change and extreme weather events such as heat waves, floods and droughts.
The Current
with Matt Galloway
CBC Listen
August 25, 2025
Across Canada, 71 per cent of the country is abnormally dry or experiencing moderate to severe drought, according to the Canadian Drought Monitor. That includes places like Sunnyside, Newfoundland and Labrador, where the taps ran dry earlier this month. And in Nova Scotia, Farmer Amy Hill in Nova Scotia shares how the dry conditions are straining her farm. John Pomeroy, Director of the Global Water Futures program at the University of Saskatchewan, explains what’s driving these conditions and what Canada must do to prepare for a hotter, drier future.
Paula Duhatschek
CBC News
August 21, 2025
Region the ‘anomaly’ in otherwise dry summer, says Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
CKOM News
August 18, 2025
It has been a record season for wildfires in Saskatchewan, and while the smoke has a direct impact on people’s health, it is also affecting long term water security in the province.
Dr. John Pomeroy, director of the Centre for Hydrology at University of Saskatchewan (U of S) was a guest on The Evan Bray Show on Monday and described the impact on glaciers in the Rocky Mountains, which feed the South Saskatchewan River from which the province draws most of its water.
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