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Northwestern University
Monday, June 28, 2021
According to The Nature Conservancy, intense weather will transform hydrology, health, economics, and ecosystems in Illinois, as reported by Eva Herscowitz for Medill.
Tags: The Nature Conservancy, Extreme weather, Flooding, farming, agriculture, illinois, sustainable farming, hydrology
Dave Hunter, founder of Crown Bees, a bee nursery and supply business in Woodinville, Wash., speaks at the USDA event. (Eric Englert/Medill)
Northwestern University
Wednesday, July 05, 2017
The USDA gets public input on its Native Bee Monitoring Plan.
Tags: Bees, pollinators, bee colony, colony collapse, colony collapse disorder, extinction
Even comprehensive recycling is four times less effective than cutting meat out of your diet. (Orin Zebest/Creative Commons)
Northwestern University
Monday, August 07, 2017
For Americans interested in reducing their carbon footprint, a new Canadian-Swedish study has a bold proposition: Consider having fewer children.
Tags: carbon footprint, climate change
Centralia, an abandoned mining town in Pennsylvania in which a mine fire has been burning for 50 years. Pennsylvania has $5 billion in unfunded abandoned mine land liabilities. (Doug Kerr/Flickr)
Northwestern University
Friday, August 25, 2017
A proposal to immediately unlock $1 billion set aside to restore abandoned mine lands in the future has the support of congressional leaders, but lawmakers in key states are skeptical.
Tags: restoration, redevelopment, built environment, pollution
A pneumoniae bacterium inside a mouse lung. (The Journal of Cell Biology/Flickr)
Northwestern University
Monday, December 19, 2016
While the media have done some collective soul-searching after Donald Trump was elected president, attempting to answer the question, "How did we get here?" One possibility that we’ve all failed to recognize is biology.
Tags: 2016 Election, psychology, health, public health
Human umbilical vein endothelial cells. (The Journal of Cell Biology/Flickr)
Northwestern University
Monday, February 27, 2017
Biological engineers are using stem cells to study the way cells interact and form unique structures on their own, hoping to one day utilize the biotechnology to create machine-like "hyper organs" and cell-based implants.
Tags: bioengineering, biomechanics, health innovation
President Trump addressed Congress on Tuesday night. (Source: Video feed)
Northwestern University
Wednesday, March 01, 2017
Earlier Tuesday, Trump signed an order for the EPA to reconsider a rule that clarifies its oversight of more than half the nation’s bodies of water.
Tags: trump administration, Environment, epa, clean water rule, clean water
Northwestern University
Thursday, April 27, 2017
One culinary intern at Kalu Yala used her time in Panama to improve her personal relationship with food and to get an example of a sustainable food system that contrasts the American food system.
Tags: food, Farm To Table, Garden, ecological agriculture, agriculture
Northern White Sand mine, North Utica, Illinois. Aerial images taken with the assistance of the non-profit pilot collaborative LightHawk. (Ted Auch/FracTracker Alliance, June 2016)
Northwestern University
Monday, November 27, 2017
Farmers in Illinois are fighting in an ongoing lawsuit to stop a proposed sand mine that would be built close to their land.
Tags: lawsuit, lasalle county, agriculture, water conservation, sand mining, fracking
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse delivered his 200th speech on climate change on March 13, 2018. (Screengrab from video.)
Northwestern University
Wednesday, March 14, 2018
Every week the Senate has been in session since April 2012, Rhode Island Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse has delivered a speech about climate change. He just marked his 200th "Time to Wake Up" speech.