The availability and quality of fresh water to sustain a radically urbanizing world is unquestionably a core issue of our time and requires holistic environmental thinking at an unprecedented scale

It's been forty years since Nixon and Trudeau signed the original; it's time for an update.

Sometimes the best way to get an idea of the scale of something is to change the context.

Exfoliating body wash may make you clean, but it's making the lake water dirty.

This long, cold winter has created the most ice cover on the Great Lakes in 20 years—and with ice cover usually at its peak in mid-March, there's still time for records to be broken.

It led to a series of other agreements that protected and cleaned up the Great Lakes environment

Do international treaties mean anything when America needs fresh water?

Humans dump millions of tons of phosphorus into lakes every year, and it's destroying their ecosystems.

The International Joint Commission has developed a strategy for how U.S. and Canadian governments can address this toxic problem.

Lake Michigan alone receives the equivalent of 100 Olympic-sized pools full of plastic bottles each year.

And it's not just lefty TreeHuggers who are outraged; Everybody is in on this war of words

Plastic is often thought of as an ocean contaminant, but it's in our freshwater lakes, too.

This stunning park isn't as famous as Banff and Jasper, but it has every reason to be.

After two years of pressing pipeline regulators to release inspection photos and videos of the 60-year-old Enbridge pipeline that carries tar sands oil through the Straits of Mackinac, NWF took it upon themselves to inspect the pipeline.

Our photo of the day delivers a bit of winter reverie from the waters of Australia.

Paediatrics in Leeds sought help from poison experts - but treatment failed to work and life support for the toddler, whose identity has been withheld, was eventually withdrawn. (stock)

David Beckham and Floyd Mayweather were in the crowd as LeBron James scored 33 points and the Los Angeles Lakers overcame the New Orleans Pelicans 125-119. 

Shoppers at Westfield Burwood in Sydney packed into the centre, ignoring social-distancing rules as they did non-essential shoppig.

Blakes has long been a haven of upmarket accommodation in west London - but the cost may make you raise an eyebrow, says out hotel inspector, as he wonders where his wine went.

North America's Great Lakes are a recreational mecca, offering all manner of watersports and scenic cruises. They're also a gigantic graveyard - of shipwrecks.

The club said in a statement they were 'deeply shocked and saddened' by news of the death of Blakeston, who 'made a huge impact on the lives of so many through his work'.

Bengaluru's lakes turn into sewage pools

Dewey Library - HE395.N74 L37 2018

Lakes, Richard D

Block, Walter, 1941- author

Brönmark, Christer, author

Vincent, Warwick F., author