Climate change has made its mark across different parts of Canada. From heat waves and wildfires to floods and droughts, the effects of climate change have been escalating, intensifying and affecting the ocean, the glaciers, the forests, the prairies and life as we know it. In recent decades, thousands of lakes across the northern hemisphere are seeing the shortest seasons of ice-cover in history. Lake Superior and Lake Erie are beginning to remain ice-free during some winters.

Today in The Conversation Canada, Sapna Sharma from York University, David Richardson from the State University of New York and Iestyn Woolway from the University of Reading, in the United Kingdom, shed light on this disappearing lake ice and its impact. Lake ecology, northern and Indigenous communities and winter recreation are all being affected. They write: “If the ice cover in northern lakes continues to decline at the same pace, it will have severe ecological and cultural consequences.”

Also today:

• The Canadian Taxpayers Federation’s politics are anti-Indigenous — so why do media outlets still quote them?
• The nanoparticles in mRNA vaccines are nothing to fear: We interact with many useful, tiny particles every day
• ‘HIV Made Me Fabulous’ film relies on science and embodied storytelling to counter stigma and discrimination

All the best,