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Listen – Canada’s “exceptional” drought from coast to coast to coast

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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.

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Soot from wildfires on Rocky Mountains glaciers affects Sask. water security

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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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Frequent disasters expose climate risks to infrastructure in South Asia

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Niranjan Shrestha and Sibi Arasu
The Associated Press
August 5, 2025

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Floods that damaged hydropower dams in Nepal and destroyed the main bridge connecting the country to China show the vulnerability of infrastructure and need for smart rebuilding in a region bearing the brunt of a warming planet, experts say.

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UPDATE: This story has also been reported on ABC News. Read here

Our Future Is on Thin Ice

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John Pomeroy
Nature Alberta
June 18, 2025

In the 30 years since global leaders first gathered to discuss how to limit climate change under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Earth has lost close to 8 trillion tonnes of ice1 and the atmospheric concentration of the potent greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide, has risen from 350 to 430 parts per million2 — a level last experienced about 2.5 million years ago at the beginning of the Pleistocene Epoch in which humans later evolved.

As a result of greenhouse gas concentration increases, temperatures are rising quickly and our weather is becoming more extreme. We now stand on the cusp of major losses to Earth’s major polar ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica. These changes are happening much sooner than many scientists’ previous worst-case scenarios.3 They spell the end for both low-lying nations and coastal regions, as maps of coastlines are redrawn by rising seas,4 as well as for wildlife such as polar bears, seals, and Antarctic penguins that have evolved to thrive in these frozen zones.

But they are also set to strike all of us, much closer to home. And it’s hard to imagine anywhere that will feel the force of these changes as acutely as Alberta…

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UPDATE: Canmore water, climate scientist wins international research award

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Cathy Ellis
Rocky Mountain Outlook
May 7, 2025

Canmore’s John Pomeroy has been honoured with a prestigious international award for his research over four decades in advancing and understanding climate science, hydrological processes and hydrological predictions.

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UPDATE: Prof. Pomeroy was also recognized by Hon. Tracy Muggli in the Senate on June 12. You can watch and read that address here.

Global Action Urged to Preserve Glaciers – and Humanity – at High-Level Dushanbe Conference

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Global Water Futures News
June 4, 2025

Prof. John Pomeroy, University of Saskatchewan, participated in the High-Level International Conference on Glaciers’ Preservation where scientific, financial, and world leaders issued the Dushanbe Glacier Declaration, calling for urgent global climate action to preserve glaciers and safeguard water security for billions.

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Listen: Dr. John Pomeroy on The Evan Bray show

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The Evan Bray Show
CJME Radio
May 12, 2025

A Saskatchewan hydrologist is being honoured with an international water research prize for his contributions to understanding that scientific area. Dr. John Pomeroy, hydrologist, director of the University of Saskatchewan’s (USask) Centre for hydrology, member of the Global Institute for Water Security, UNESCO Chair in Mountain Water Sustainability and distinguished professor in the department of geography and planning in USask’s College of Arts and Science, joins Evan to discuss this honour and some of his recent work.

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