Plovers quarrel: a tiny, endangered bird returns to Sauble Beach to find sunbathers dug into the sand
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26 min. readFined $100,000 for destroying piping plover habitat, the Town of South Bruce Peninsula is headed...
The report on Ontario’s natural resources the government didn’t want you to read
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The Ford government held back a report on Ontario’s ecosystems until The Narwhal made a...
What happens when the ice disappears?
In our latest newsletter, we take you to the shores of Gitchigumi for a story...
Breaking up: ice loss is changing one Anishinaabe fisherman’s relationship with Lake Superior
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Sometime in the early 1990s, the ice was so unusually thick and smooth on Gitchigumi...
Holding in the deep: what Canada wants to do with its decades-old pileup of nuclear waste
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Canada plans to store spent nuclear fuel deep, deep underground in the Great Lakes basin....
Lakes are losing their ice cover faster than ever — here’s what that means for us
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Climate change is shortening the season when lakes are frozen over, and some of the...
Fresh, local and forgotten: on Lake Ontario and Lake Erie, families fight to save their fisheries
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The Great Lakes are a freshwater ecosystem rich with aquatic life, but researchers warn of...
Lake Ontario ‘aquatic landfill’ to contain 150-year-old toxic blob from industrial pollution
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A $139-million underwater box the size of six city blocks is being built to contain...
Out in the Great Lakes, an alarm is sounding
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For researchers with a keen eye, rising temperatures, invasive species and a changing fish population...