David Schindler, known as a bluff, straight-shooting University of Alberta ecologist, died Thursday at age 80.

Ontario is pledging $2 million per year to keep a world-famous experimental research area open in the northwestern part of the province.

The federal government has signed a memorandum of understanding that will allow science to continue this summer at a world-famous freshwater research area in northwestern Ontario.

OTTAWA – The Harper government is refusing to permit fully funded freshwater research to take place this summer at the remote Experimental Lakes Area in northwestern Ontario. A group of researchers from Trent University in Peterborough, Ont., was told this week they are barred from the site, despite starting their work last summer and spending...