CBS News
December 14, 2024
Glaciers around the world are melting due to climate change. In response, the United Nations has declared 2025 the year of glacier preservation. In the Canadian Rockies, glaciers power a uniquely stunning ecosystem, but the changes to the ice are concerning.
Matt Olson
Usask News
December 6, 2024
The weather outside is frightful – but in the long run, that might be delightful.
John Pomeroy
The Hill Times
December 4, 2024
It is now time for Canadians to prepare for ‘cryospheric destruction’ and it is going to be a distressing experience. We must prepare for earlier, smaller, and less reliable snowmelt and, hence, less reliable river flows and lake levels that supply drinking water, irrigation water, hydropower, and cold-loving fish such as trout and salmon.
By: Andrew Findlay
Mountain Life – Rocky Mountains – Winter 2025
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Snow Dome, rising on the edge of the Columbia Icefield in Jasper National Park, is a topographical anomaly. This icy, 3,456-metre monolith is what’s known as a hydrological apex because it perches at the junction of two landscape-defining continental features: the Great Divide and the Arctic Divide. Depending on what side of Snow Dome a snowflake falls, when it melts into a droplet of water it will flow into either the Arctic, Atlantic or Pacific Ocean…
Candace Savage
Canadian Geographic
August 2, 2024
The South Saskatchewan River is under unprecedented pressure. Now, a major irrigation project is set to expand.
Ed Struzik
Yale Environment 360
August 7, 2024
With the Mackenzie River too low for barge traffic, villages in the Northwest Territories are flying in food, fuel, and other essentials. A proposed highway could offer a lifeline as climate change further reduces flows, but the project faces big challenges in a warming Arctic.
Inayat Singh
CBC News
August 1, 2024
Ash is darkening Athabasca Glacier, causing it to absorb more solar heat and hastening glacier melt.
Carolyn Kury de Castillo
Global News
July 27, 2024
A renowned Canadian scientist is warning that the devastation in Jasper is sign of what’s to come as extreme heat continue to plague the planet.
Environmental Science & Engineering Magazine
May 9, 2024
Global Water Futures Observatories (GWFO) officially launched in April as a new chapter of the freshwater observation network that now connects nine Canadian post-secondary institutions, including Carleton, McMaster, Saskatchewan (lead), Toronto, Trent, Waterloo, Western, Wilfrid Laurier and Windsor.
Alesia Fieldberg, Brendan Ellis
CTV News Calgary
May 22, 2024
While rainfall is helping ease short-term drought concerns in southern Alberta, the region will need much more precipitation to keep moisture levels sufficient through the summer.