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IISD-ELA in the News | Winnipeg Free Press | August 30, 2019

"The facility’s latest one-of-a-kind project has researchers conducting controlled oil spills and exploring ways to use bacteria in the wetlands to clean them up by turning oil into carbon dioxide and water, it announced Friday."

IISD-ELA in the News | BBC | August 28, 2019

"Desjardins and others from IISD Experimental Lakes Area are investigating whether reintroductions of the opossum shrimp – 10,000 painstakingly counted at a time – might jumpstart biological recovery of the ecosystem."

IISD-ELA in the News | Winnipeg Free Press | August 27, 2019

"Victoria Beach council carried a motion at its last meeting, requesting the Association of Manitoba Municipalities' support in "strongly urging" the city to reconsider a phosphorus-limiting proposal put forward by the Lake Winnipeg Foundation and International Institute for Sustainable Development."

IISD-ELA in the News | Water Canada | August 20, 2019

"A new global study evaluated how calcium concentrations are changing in freshwater lakes around the world. The study revealed that in widespread areas in Europe and eastern North America, calcium levels are declining towards levels that can be critically low for the reproduction and survival of many aquatic organisms, such as freshwater mussels and zooplankton."

IISD-ELA in the News | WTIP North Shore Community Radio | August 19, 2019

"Scientists in a research facility in northwestern Ontario are deliberately polluting lakes to learn what happens to the ecosystem and then figure out how to make them healthy again. Brian spoke with Sumeep Bath, communications director for the International Institute for Sustainable Development Experimental Lakes area, located north of Kenora, Ontario, to find out more."