Lakes & Rivers
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The Next Extinction Level Event — Is It Already Here?
2025-12-05
Are we witnessing a mass extinction?
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Climate change threatens Canada’s dams - but who’s keeping track?
2025-12-05
There are more than 14,000 dams across the country, but not all provinces have legislation or record-keeping to monitor their maintenance or assess the risks they pose
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Fish are swimming a bit easier in this P.E.I. creek thanks to bridge structure removal
2025-12-05
The Souris and Area Branch of the P.E.I. Wildlife Federation is spearheading the work, with support from the Canadian Wildlife Federation, the Atlantic Salmon Federation and the provincial government.
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Closing-up the Cottage With Nature in Mind
2025-12-05
With fall comes sweater weather, beautifully coloured leaves, cooler temperatures, and for many — time to close the cottage for winter.
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Deep impacts: Manitoba wildfires could threaten aquatic ecosystems
2025-12-05
Raging wildfires have left visible scars on much of Manitoba’s landscape this season, but the impacts of the fires can go much deeper, including right to the bottom of the lake.
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Eastern Ontario’s Own Turtle Island
2025-12-05
Even during the pandemic, the Friends of Petrie Island (FOPI) turtle conservation initiatives continued. Petrie Island — located in Orleans (East end of Ottawa) — was purchased in the late 1950s by the Grandmaitre family. In the 1960s, they used it as a cooperative sand extraction operation, which ended in 2002. The sand operation increased the amount of sand on the island which in turn increased the turtle nesting areas.
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Clean Up Your Shoreline — a Project Kids Can Feel Good About!
2025-12-05
From rubber duckies to plastic straws, everything we throw away ends up somewhere.
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5 Ways to Reduce Your Plastic Footprint at Your Favourite Fast Food Joint
2025-12-05
Plastic is everywhere. Some of it is important – think medical equipment, but others are just wasteful.
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Raise Your Voice and Get the American Eel Listed by SARA
2025-12-05
They face so many threats along the way, like facing barriers such as dams and turbines that can kill adults as they return to sea. They’re having such a hard time that they’ve declined by more than 99 per cent in Ontario.
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Fears rise for Fraser River salmon after Pier Park fire delivers another blow
2025-12-05
Conservationists say salmon at ‘unprecedented’ lows and just keep getting hit
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