IISD-ELA in the News

IISD-ELA in the News | Water Canada | January 12, 2022

"Carried out at the IISD Experimental Lakes Area (IISD-ELA) in Ontario, Canada, one of the only facilities in the world where lakes and their watersheds can be experimentally manipulated to determine the many ways in which humans are impacting lakes, the 15-year study tracking the impacts of mercury inputs to lakes on freshwater fish discovered that while mercury quickly built up in fish populations, it also declined almost as quickly once mercury additions stopped."

IISD-ELA in the News | The Why and How Podcast? | December 22, 2021

"Through a toxicology lens, Tyler is looking to better understand how they impact marine organisms, specifically clams, and how to support restoration efforts in the future."

IISD-ELA in the News | National Observer | December 22, 2021

"Mercury contamination in freshwater fish populations falls quickly once new sources of the toxic chemical are cut off, says new research. Paul Blanchfield, lead author of the study published in the journal Nature, said the finding that lakes can rebound quickly from mercury pollution is good news."

IISD-ELA in the News | Smithsonian Magazine | December 22, 2021

If the chemical stops leaking into freshwater ecosystems, its concentration in some fish species can drop by more than 75 percent"

IISD-ELA in the News | CTV | December 22, 2021

"New research has found mercury contamination in freshwater fish populations falls quickly once the sources of the toxic chemical are cut off. Federal government scientist Paul Blanchfield, lead author of the study, says the finding that lakes can rebound quickly from mercury pollution is good news."

IISD-ELA in the News | Popular Science | December 16, 2021

"An encouraging new experiment hints that cutting off mercury pollution to bodies of water can quickly translate into lower levels of the toxic substance in seafood."

IISD-ELA in the News | PBS | December 16, 2021

"Mercury pollution remains a problem in many parts of the Great Lakes, but new research from Canada’s Experimental Lakes Area in northern Ontario shows that efforts to reduce the amount of mercury going into a lake can have quick and dramatic effects on the levels of the pollutant in fish populations."

IISD-ELA in the News | New Scientist | December 16, 2021

"Mercury pollution is a major global environmental problem, with small-scale gold mining and coal burning the two biggest sources, but fish can recover quickly when the pollution stops."

IISD-ELA in the News | Science | December 16, 2021

"Now, a 15-year study of an experimental lake shows reducing mercury pollution that entered the ecosystem caused concentrations of the toxin in fish populations to drop substantially within only a few years."

IISD-ELA in the News | BioScience | December 7, 2021

"In work led by Joanne Littlefair at Queen Mary University of London, Hrenchuk was part of a team addressing the question When an eDNA sample is collected, what does it mean about the fish?"