Long held up as the coldest and the cleanest of the Great Lakes, Lake Superior is nonetheless seeing the impacts of climate change. Warmer air temperatures have brought more frequent and powerful storms to the region, and Superior is warming faster than the other Great Lakes.
Climate Change
For timely, meaningful progress to improve the health of the Great Lakes, it’s going to take a village.
This is the third article in a series highlighting how communities along the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River are using innovative solutions to adapt to the current period of high water levels, focusing on work in New York, Ontario and Quebec to prepare for extreme water levels in the future.
Now more than ever, it’s time to embrace binational cooperation to ensure that the waters and people of the Great Lakes basin are healthy.
This broadcast will be live from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. ET Thursday, December 10, 2020. The broadcast will be available on-demand at this link immediately afterwards. For the report and more information visit ijc.org/en/2020-TAP-Report.
The IJC’s first Triennial Assessment of Progress report was released in November 2017, as well as a Highlights report, a Technical Appendix and a Summary of Public Comment Appendix.
This is the second article in a series highlighting how communities along the Great Lakes use innovative solutions to adapt to the current period of high water levels, focusing on work supporting shoreline communities in Michigan and Ontario to prepare for extreme water levels in the future.
While a “Sharknado” is the stuff of science fiction, the combination of two independently harmful environmental stressors may—like sharks and tornadoes— multiply the resulting damage to Great Lakes ecosystems.