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Forget the fight over its name. The Great Lake is being threatened by pollution, development, and decades of neglect

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The lake is Canadian in every way that matters. No U.S. executive order can change that.

Trump signed an executive order on Thursday to rename Lake Ontario as Lake America.

Wendat Nation Grand Chief Pierre Picard said the U.S. president “is attempting to eradicate our history” with his order to rename Lake Ontario as “Lake America.”

Watch ‘Lake America’: Trump threatens to rename Lake Ontario amid trade war with Canada Video Online, on GlobalNews.ca

President Donald Trump mused on social implied the name of the lake is tied to the Canadian province, instead of the other way around.

The history of U.S.-Canada cooperation to reduce air pollution across the border

Climate change, as well as our other big ecological problems, is tightly linked to how we use and consume resources.

Canada’s hydroelectric history suggests its "Great Acceleration" began in the early 1900s, driven by symbiotic energy growth rather than transitions.

Canada’s hydroelectric history suggests its "Great Acceleration" began in the early 1900s, driven by symbiotic energy growth rather than transitions.

Daniel Macfarlane This is the second post in a series exploring the potential of the Great Acceleration as a framework and reconnaissance of Canadian environmental history. The posts in t…

Canada–US relations revolve around a core paradox: economic prosperity through resource exports versus maintaining national autonomy.

Gordon Lightfoot’s 1976 ballad immortalized the 1975 Edmund Fitzgerald shipwreck, linking Great Lakes industry, Indigenous history, environmental change, and enduring cultural memory.

What if the most famous disaster on Lake Superior never really ended?

Gordon Lightfoot’s 1976 ballad immortalized the 1975 Edmund Fitzgerald shipwreck, linking Great Lakes industry, Indigenous history, environmental change, and enduring cultural memory.

Erie Canal’s 200th: engineering success, reshaped settlement, boosted trade, harmed Indigenous lands and ecosystems, linked U.S.–Canada waterways, now mostly recreational.

That first 1972 Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, now a half-century old, was the foundation for building the institutional and regulatory apparatus we have in place today.

The Sharknado franchise, a low-budget sci-fi series known for absurd CGI, outrageous plot twists, and a tongue-in-cheek approach, uses famous landmarks, including Niagara Falls, to satirize disaster f...

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In response to Great Lakes pollution, Canada and the US created the Boundary Waters Treaty and International Joint Commission.

The Southwestern U.S. is tapped out, potentially creating a future point of conflict between two countries already in a trade war. Read on.

The creation of the Boundary Waters Treaty and International Joint Commission highlights transborder issues in the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Basin.

Is President Trump angling to take over the Great Lakes? Can the water be diverted to other states?