CBC News
May 7, 2026
Banff Sunshine Village says an exceptionally snowy winter is allowing it to plan for a summer ski season. Its regular winter ski season will end on May 18. About a month later, it expects to reopen for a 16-day summer ski season from June 20 to July 5. Kendra Scurfield, a representative of Sunshine Village, says the amount of snow still on the mountain gave the resort confidence to plan for this summer.
CBC News
May 6, 2026
Hydrologist John Pomeroy breaks down the flooding affecting communities in the province and what we might see in the coming weeks as the snow pack continues to melt.
Global News
April 16, 2026
Most Calgarians are probably tired of shovelling their sidewalks or scraping off their cars following yet another springtime snowfall. But as Skylar Peters explains, it’s been great news for the snowpack in the Rocky Mountains nearby, and city officials are happy to see it.
CBC News
April 16, 2026
A colder, wetter winter this year across the Canadian Rockies brought near-historic snowfall, and that could be good news for drought and wildfire risk in the Northwest Territories this summer. But experts say that largely depends on how quickly the snow melts.
International Association of Cryospheric Sciences April 2026 Newsletter
IACS
April 2026
UNESCO, WMO, and hundreds from the International Year of Glaciers’
Preservation – 2025 (IYGP) community celebrated the World Day for
Glaciers and World Water Day at UNESCO’s Headquarters in Paris on 18-
19 March 2026, closing the IYGP and launching the new Decade of
Action for Cryospheric Sciences (DACS) with…
From Glacier Year to a Decade of Action: Strengthening Global Collaboration on the Cryosphere
Mountain Research Initiatives
March 2026
The World Day for Glaciers 2026 marked a critical transition for the global cryosphere community. As the International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation (IYGP2025) came to a close, a new Decade of Action began – calling for stronger collaboration, relevant data and observations, and impact-oriented solutions.
CityNews Calgary
April 7, 2026
If you’re one who doesn’t enjoy a spring blast of snow or the surprise sprinkle of rain consider there are some who do…and for reasons that affect us all. (John Pomeroy’s interview featured 54 seconds in)
$9.5 million project combines fieldwork, advanced modeling, AI, and community engagement
Matt Olson
Research Profile and Impact, U. of Sask.
February 2, 2026
As digital technology continues to change, advance and shape our everyday lives, experts are leveraging new tech and new tools to push the boundaries of research, scholarly and artistic work..
Keenan Sorokan
CTV News
January 14, 2026
Bob Bohun has farmed long enough to know what untimely warm weather could mean for his operation.
With Wednesday marking the fourth consecutive day of above-freezing temperatures across the province, the Hafford-area farmer fears the rapid melting followed by many weeks of freezing will create a layer of ice over his farmland and have melting snow run off into sloughs and ditches rather than the soil beneath it.
Drew Stremick
Global News
January 9, 2026
In December, heavy snowfall in the Rocky Mountains resulted in many areas seeing more than an entire season’s worth of snow. At the Canmore Coldwater Laboratory, teams survey snowpacks on mountain peaks with a variety of instruments.