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Volunteers raise up their grabbers which were supplied by Anacostia Riverkeeper before the cleanup at Pope Branch Park begins Saturday. (Isabel Miller/Medill News Service)
Northwestern University
Wednesday, January 26, 2022
Isabel Miller reports Anacostia Riverkeeper held a community river clean up day on Saturday in commemoration of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and his legacy of service.
Tags: Anacostia River, watershed, River, Washington DC, community clean up, clean up, day of service, mlk, martin luther king jr., trash
Scotts Bluff National Monument. (National Park Service)
Northwestern University
Friday, January 27, 2017
The National Park Service is trying to keep exempt its safety personnel from President Donald Trump’s 90-day federal hiring freeze.
Tags: national park, national park service, trump administration, federal hiring freeze
Northwestern University
Tuesday, August 20, 2019
Several hundred animal rights activists joined similar groups around the world on Aug. 17, to protest cruelty to animals, marching from the White House to the Capitol. André Earls reports.
Tags: animal rights, protest, animal rights march, vegan, Medill, storyfest2020
Northwestern University
Wednesday, May 16, 2018
Medill's Colin Boyle covers how Kalu Yala staff and media interns coped with the hard-hitting docu-series while still working sustainably in a Panamanian jungle.
Tags: kalu yala, Medill, Colin Boyle, Journalism, panama, San Miguel, Jimmy Stice, Vice, jungletown
Northwestern University
Tuesday, May 22, 2018
Speckled just north of the vivacious Panamanian coastline is a chain of islands facing the threat of disappearing. The islands' daunting fate is not determined by the doing of their inhabitants, but rather by the world around them.
Tags: Guna Yala, panama, Colin Boyle, climate change, Medill, San Blas Islands
Northwestern University
Tuesday, June 12, 2018
Abelardo “Tito” Nuñez Davies first came to Pelican Island 15 years ago. It was much larger then. The small hut he and his mother share started out in the middle of this tiny oasis of sand. Now, the ocean laps at their doorstep.
Tags: climate change, rising sea levels, Guna Yala, kalu yala, Medill, oceans, tides
Biology student Selah Phillips collects algae at the Pacora River. She hopes the oil she has extracted from the algae can be processed into sustainable biodiesel. (Maddie Burakoff/Medill)
Northwestern University
Friday, June 29, 2018
Maddie Burakoff of Medill reports that at eco-institute Kalu Yala, researchers seek out environmental solutions in the midst of one of the most biodiverse regions in the world, but grapple with sustaining their own progress.
Tags: kalu yala, panama, Ryan King, Selah Phillips, Jules Hart, Tara McLaughlin, algae, Black soldier flies, Medill, Maddie Burakoff
Northwestern University
Thursday, October 24, 2019
The last of three episodes, this podcast focuses on Florida Keys residents' opinions on sea level rise.
Tags: climate change, sea level rise, Florida Keys, oceans, Flooding, coral reef, SLR, podcast, storyfest2020
Northwestern University
Thursday, October 24, 2019
The second of three episodes, this podcast focuses on the economic impacts of sea level rise in the Florida Keys.
Tags: climate change, sea level rise, Florida Keys, Flooding, roads, hurricanes, economics, Environment, podcast, storyfest2020
Northwestern University
Thursday, October 24, 2019
The first of three episodes, this podcast focuses on what sea level rise looks like in the Florida Keys and how it is being addressed.