Media

The Water Brothers explore how researchers at the IISD-Experimental Lakes Area are learning more about how microplastics affect freshwater ecosystems by conducting a whole-lake study.

News Articles and Videos

Inside a ‘living lab’: how a remote Canadian lake is helping scientists uncover the hidden life of microplastics

The Guardian, October 10, 2025

How Microplastic Pollution is Being Tested in Whole-Lake Ecosystems

American Fisheries Society in partnership with Content with Purpose, September 2, 2025

Sacrifice Zones

APTN Investigates, June 21, 2025

Faszination Wasser

Terra X, June 15, 2025

L’impact des microplastiques sur les plans d’eau douce

Ici Radio-Canada Télé, October 26, 2024

Why scientists are dumping microplastics into Ontario’s Experimental Lakes Area

GLOBAL NATIONAL, August 13, 2024

Microplastics found in remote waters near Great Lakes in ‘alarming’ new study

FOX 2 Detroit, March 27, 2024

Small lakes, big studies: what Ontario’s experimental lakes area teaches the world about water

The Narwhal, Nov 7, 2023

Great Lakes microplastics concentrations exceed safe levels for wildlife

Great Lakes Now, Aug 21, 2023

Meet Natasha Neves: Experimental Lake Area Researcher!

The Starfish, Aug 11, 2023

The Macro Problem of Microplastics

The Walleye, Jul 12, 2023

Ripple Effects Of Microplastics In Canadian Lakes

Ocean Diagnostics, Apr 21, 2022

Best of Quirks & Quarks – Summer Science Special

CBC Radio, Sep 10, 2021

Canada funds seven microplastic research projects at universities

Environmental Science & Engineering Magazine, Jun 7, 2021

How Remote Lakes Could Help Unravel the Mysteries of Microplastic

WIRED, Jul 1, 2019

Podcasts

Different Polymer Backbones

Teach Me About the Great Lakes, Aug 21, 2023