The United Nations World Water Development Report on Mountains and glaciers: Water towers
Session 2: Cooperation and participation for preserving mountains and glaciers: Focus on Europe and North America
September 17, 2025
15:00 – 16:30 CET
Category Archives: Uncategorized
Let’s both celebrate – and worry about – our Great Lakes on World Lake Day
John Smol, Sapna Sharma and Steven Cooke
The Globe and Mail
August 27, 2025
Canada is blessed with over nine million lakes, leading to the perception that we have endless freshwater resources. However, Canadian lakes – like lakes around the world – are under increasing environmental threats from multiple stressors, such as pollution, land-cover changes and invasive species, among other factors, many of which are now amplified due to climate change and extreme weather events such as heat waves, floods and droughts.
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Listen – Canada’s “exceptional” drought from coast to coast to coast
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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In a bone-dry summer, normally parched southern Alberta has been soaked
Paula Duhatschek
CBC News
August 21, 2025
Region the ‘anomaly’ in otherwise dry summer, says Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
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Soot from wildfires on Rocky Mountains glaciers affects Sask. water security
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
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
UPDATE: Canmore water, climate scientist wins international research award
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.
Glacial pace of climate action has imperilled Earth’s glaciers
John Pomeroy
Hindustan Times
May 31, 2025
Asia is set to suffer disproportionate losses of snow and ice. This must be the year that we turn around our emissions record.
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Opinion: preserving glaciers is key to humanity’s survival
John Pomeroy
Dialogue Earth
May 9, 2025
The survival of our civilisation – and even our species – hinges on our ability to protect the planet’s glaciers, writes scientist, hydrologist and glaciologist, John Pomeroy
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Listen: Dr. John Pomeroy on The Evan Bray show
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.