Water Canada
December 1, 2025
A new national survey suggests Canadians overwhelmingly see freshwater as the country’s most important natural resource, but most don’t feel they know enough about it.
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Integrating technology and collaborative monitoring in the Western Lake Erie Basin
Edward Millar, Katelynn Johnson, Elizabeth Striano, and Aaron Fisk
IAGLR Lakes Letter
Fall 2025
Based at the University of Windsor, the Realtime Aquatic Ecosystem Observation Network (RAEON) supports collaborative freshwater research by providing access to water monitoring instruments and infrastructure. The core of RAEON’s mission centers on collaboration: providing a system through which emerging freshwater monitoring technologies are shared to improve research and management.
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2025-4_Fall_LL27_pg24-25Warmer weather is leading to vanishing winters in North America’s Great Lakes
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…
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Globe Climate: Wildfire ash speeds up glacier melt
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.
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Wildfire ash is accelerating glacier melt in the Canadian Rockies
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…
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Submerged cars, backed-up traffic, overflowing parks: Calgary drenched in rain
Kevin Green
CTV News Calgary
July 28, 2025
A soaking rainstorm that drenched Calgary from Sunday night into Monday caused flooding across the city, with emergency crews responding to submerged cars, backed-up traffic and overflowing parks.
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Our Future Is on Thin Ice
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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Global Action Urged to Preserve Glaciers – and Humanity – at High-Level Dushanbe Conference
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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‘Exceptionally large late season storm’ needed to bring mountain snow levels in Banff, Kananaskis to normal
Cathy Ellis
Rocky Mountain Outlook
April 24, 2025
BANFF – The snowpack shortage in the mountains could pose dangerous conditions this summer.
Canmore’s John Pomeroy, one of the world’s leading snow and ice hydrology experts, said the snow water equivalent is hundreds of millimetres below normal for this time of year, generally at between 65 and 85 per cent of normal for high elevation snowpacks in the Bow River Basin and Kananaskis Country…
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Climate change message through art
Carol Thomson
CJWW News
April 19, 2025
A USask scientist and world-renowned water research expert is one of the co-authors of a book on climate change in Western Canada, but it’s not just graphs and numbers – it also includes artistic illustrations.