by April Wendling | Sep 13, 2022 | Climate Change
By Rachel Weingart On a balmy summer day in New Mexico, a small pond shrinks under the sun’s intense rays. Schools of spadefoot tadpoles swim about, indistinguishable from the shades of brown that make up their watery nursery. At first glance there seem to be two...
by April Wendling | Sep 13, 2022 | Illinois Research, Janelle Joseph Environmental Writing Contest
By Julia Marsaglia As a child, Sonia Lasher-Trapp had an intense fear of storms. She can still remember sitting through them alone in her basement in the middle of the night, sheltered from the bright lightning and pounding rain. Eventually, her dad began watching the...
by April Wendling | Sep 13, 2022 | Conserving Nature
By Abby Culloton Hidden among the cornfields of central Illinois, at a location so unknown you need a set of coordinates to find it, lies an ecological paradise. Point Pleasant wetland in Penfield is a rich, diverse ecosystem teeming with wildlife and a hotspot for...
by April Wendling | Sep 13, 2022 | Born to be Wild
By Lauren Brunk Harsh wind nipped at my bare hand as I carefully unfolded the mist nets at Homer Lake, a forest preserve a dozen miles east of the U of I campus. We unfolded a collection of three nets around bird feeders. Tall trees surrounding us hosted a plethora of...
by April Wendling | Sep 13, 2022 | Environment & Health
By Olivia Grubisich Silent and tragic, opioid addiction festers in the American soil. It devastates consistently, but dips in and out of national attention. Most recently, the Hulu original series “Dopesick” described with fresh nuance how the deceptive...
