by April Wendling | Feb 24, 2022 | Energy Futures, Janelle Joseph Environmental Writing Contest, Opinion/Editorial
By Kayla Vittore The COVID-19 pandemic hasn’t only affected human life; the global climate also felt the impact of this historic event. There was a 6 to 7 percent decline in atmospheric carbon dioxide emissions last year due to a drastic reduction in travel and...
by April Wendling | Feb 24, 2022 | Living World
By Grace Finnell-Gudwien It was a dimly moonlit night in January 2020 when University of Illinois freshman Lauren Bartels and her sister boarded a tandem kayak in Laguna Grande, Puerto Rico, for a tour. Paddling through a canal, they saw ahead something quite...
by April Wendling | Feb 23, 2022 | Emerging Technology, Energy Futures, Janelle Joseph Environmental Writing Contest
By Tyler Swanson Bitcoin has been called “The People’s Currency” and “The Currency of the Future,” but whatever the name, its rise to prominence in recent years is astonishing. While Bitcoin was initially intended to act as a decentralized currency that anyone...
by April Wendling | Feb 22, 2022 | Conserving Nature, Janelle Joseph Environmental Writing Contest, Living World
By Erinn Dady One gorgeous spring day in April 2021, I shed the constraints of the pandemic and visited the Atherton Island Natural Area, a stunning wild place about 20 miles north of Terre Haute, Indiana. The occasion was a wildflower hike organized by the Ouabache...
by April Wendling | Feb 21, 2022 | Environmental Justice, Q&A
By Kratika Tandon Richard Lazarus grew up in Urbana, Ill., and enrolled at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign a couple of weeks after his 17th birthday. Known today as a pioneer in the field of environmental law, he created a path from the beginning by...
