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…
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.
David Bell
CBC News
April 15, 2025
Prominent hydrologists are sounding the alarm as another dry summer in southern Alberta — with the possibility of water restrictions — is coming into focus.
Water levels are low. Really low.
“The snowpacks in the mountain headwaters of the Bow River, the Oldman River, Red Deer River and North Saskatchewan River are generally extremely low, some of the lowest I’ve ever seen,” John Pomeroy told CBC News in a Tuesday interview.
John Pomeroy
South China Morning Post
March 22, 2025
Other mountain ranges are losing their glaciers faster but Asia’s critically dependent economy and people put it on the front line
Kristen McEwen
USask News
March 5, 2025
As the United Nations prepares to observe World Water Day on March 22, a University of Saskatchewan (USask) researcher discusses the need for water protection planning and anticipating contamination risks.
Joel Dryden
CBC News
February 18. 2025
Aging infrastructure and changing climate could put pressure on long-standing treaties
Kevin Green
CTV News
January 30, 2025
A devastating glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF) in India’s Sikkim region is offering stark lessons for Western Canada, where glacial retreat in the Rockies is creating new moraine-dammed lakes that could pose similar threats.
Cathy Ellis
Rocky Mountain Outlook
January 27, 2025
BANFF – Peyto Glacier in Banff National Park continues to melt at an alarming rate and may be gone in 10 years.
Liam O’Connor
CBC News
January 27, 2025
All cities face risks, but those dangers increase farther north, says Sask. Public Safety Agency VP
blue News
January 16, 2025
The fact that glaciers are melting so quickly is alarming scientists. Forest fires are accelerating the trend. 2025 is therefore the “Year of Glacier Conservation”