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Canadians love to paddle on them and camp beside them, but our boreal lakes offer more than just peace and beauty. They could provide clues to how life on Earth began.
What do you do with a giant pit mine once it closes? One option for the Hazelwood mine is creating a recreational lake – but there are economic and environmental issues to consider.
Floods are often seen as a force of destruction. But as river ecologists, we find it hard not to rejoice at the flooding.
Scientists are pioneering a new way of monitoring water species, using techniques more familiar to fans of crime scene TV shows.
Lakes contain most of the fresh water on Earth’s surface. Recent research at Lake Tahoe in the Sierra Nevada mountains shows that climate change could alter lake chemistry, threatening these sources.
Freshwater covers only 0.5% of the Earth’s surface but is home to 10% of the world’s lifeforms.
Invasive species cause some $120 billion in damages across North America yearly – and that’s just direct costs. A study of one species in one Wisconsin lake indicates the real toll is much higher.
A score of new fish species discovered recently in northern Australia remind us how little we know about our country.
Plans to dam Lake Baikal’s most important tributary could kick off an international dispute.
Potentially dangerous plastics and microplastic particles are contaminating subalpine lakes at a rate similar to levels found…
Blue Lake, one of the largest lakes on North Stradbroke Island, southeast of Brisbane has been relatively unaffected by the…
Blue Lake on North Stradbroke Island in Queensland has remained relatively untouched by climate change, a study has found…
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Reader and NERC Independent Research Fellow, Bangor University
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Professor of Global Change Ecology, University of Cambridge
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Associate Professor and York University Research Chair in Global Change Biology, York University, Canada
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Chair, Department of Science, Technology, and Society, Rochester Institute of Technology
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Instructor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Carleton University
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Canada Research Chair & Professor, Carleton University
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Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Lake Ecologist and Modeller, UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
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Professor of Environmental Change, UCL
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Associate Professor in Environmental Science, Western Sydney University
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Professor of Ecology, The University of Queensland
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Conservation Planning Biologist, Wildlife Conservation Society Canada and Adjunct Professor of Conservation Biology, University of Saskatchewan
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W. M. Keck Professor of Environmental Analysis and History, Pomona College
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PhD candidate, School of BioSciences, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer in the School of Applied Sciences, Edinburgh Napier University
