Canadian Freshwater Assessment Highlights Great Lakes Among Most Threatened

Canadian Freshwater Assessment Highlights Great Lakes Among Most Threatened

Guest blog post by Anuja Kapoor Policy-makers face the facts about the at-risk integrity of one of the world’s largest freshwater ecosystems. This year marked the first national assessment of Canada’s abundant freshwater ecosystems in decades, encompassing 25 watersheds across Canada (and 167 sub-watersheds). The making of the assessment began […]

Worst Algal Bloom of the Season is Wake Up Call for Urgent Action

Toxic algal blooms on Lake Erie right now are as bad as we’ve seen them all summer. The bloom now covers almost all of the lake’s western basin along the Michigan and Ohio shorelines and extends offshore into the central basin and northeast to the Ontario coast. These conditions serve as a […]