See below to see the latest media releases from IISD Experimental Lakes Area and features in media. If you wish to speak to one of our experts, contact Sumeep Bath, media and communications officer at IISD Experimental Lakes Area at [email protected] or +1 (204) 958-7700 ext. 740.
IISD-ELA in the News | CBC Quirks and Quarks | September 21, 2021
"Kennedy Bucci's summer was spent at the Experimental Lakes Area (ELA), situated between Kenora and Dryden in northwestern Ontario, a unique outdoor laboratory where 58 freshwater lakes have been set aside for research."
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."
