Media

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."

IISD-ELA in the News | The Toronto Star | July 5, 2021

"While the long-term impact of increased antidepressant use on humans is still greatly unknown, there’s a second critical area that you may have not considered: its impact on the environment."