IISD-ELA in the News | Kenora Daily Miner | September 30, 2021
"The IISD-Experimental Lakes Area has recently translated some educational videos into Ojibwe in an effort to help Indigenous youth reconnect with their language and learn about the research being done at the freshwater laboratory located southeast of Kenora."
IISD-ELA in the News | Fort Francis Times | September 29, 2021
"A project coming out of the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) Experimental Lakes Area (ELA) has worked to translate two educational videos into Anishinaabemowin, and created several new words in the language in the process."
IISD-ELA in the News | Manitoba Cooperator | September 22, 2021
"This means more monitoring and a better overall co-ordination of research efforts in all pockets of the province to ensure that the results are immediately built into effective policy to tackle the scourge of zebra mussels."
IISD-ELA in the News | Massive Science | August 31, 2021
"Sampling a lake at different times of year and at different depths found fish DNA distributes in unexpected ways"
IISD-ELA in the News | Manitoba Cooperator | August 6, 2021
"Despite its thousand lakes, Manitoba needs to plan to use its water more efficiently as it develops a new water management strategy, says the International Institute of Sustainable Development (IISD)."
IISD-ELA in the News | Great Lakes Now | August 3, 2021
“We know that in the marine environment there are bacteria that can degrade oil,” said Palace. “We wanted to know if naïve freshwater systems have that same capacity.”
IISD-ELA in the News | Great Lakes Now | July 30, 2021
"Vince Palace, who led the work at the International Institute for Sustainable Development’s Experimental Lakes Area in western Ontario, said that the methods currently in use for cleaning up spills in rivers and lakes – mostly digging up and dumping contaminated soil – are not particularly effective. They only recover around 20 to 40% of the oil, and the physical damage done to shorelines and streambeds can be worse than the effects of the spill itself, taking as long as a decade to recover."
IISD-ELA in the News | Radio-Canada Manitoba | July 30, 2021
Louis St-Cyr speaks to Radio-Canada about the summer season and how the world's freshwater laboratory is braving the pandemic. (French-language interview)
IISD-ELA in the News | Ottawa Citizen | July 28, 2021
"Here in Canada, this work has been over 50 years in the making. For example, IISD Experimental Lakes Area contributed data on the physical and chemical elements of five reference lakes that have been collected since 1969"
IISD-ELA in the News | Winnipeg Free Press | July 21, 2021
"In early July, researchers from the International Institute for Sustainable Development built and planted a total of 10 floating wetlands in two retention ponds in East St. Paul. The project, run by IISD’s bioeconomy and water policy lead Richard Grosshans, will test how effective the wetlands are at removing harmful pollutants from freshwater lakes over time."
