by April Wendling | Nov 8, 2023 | Janelle Joseph Environmental Writing Contest
By Abby Culloton“Look at me — I’m a chemist!” my teammate enthusiastically declared as she tipped a test tube full of bright blue liquid back and forth. The blue liquid in question was a test for dissolved oxygen in water: an important chemical parameter for...
by April Wendling | Feb 2, 2023 | Janelle Joseph Environmental Writing Contest
By Eva Bein When I met up with University of Illinois senior Colin Dobson one morning in Fall 2021, he greeted me with a smile, a camera around his neck, and a Target bag full of dead birds.Let’s backtrack.No, Colin isn’t a serial bird killer or obsessive taxidermist...
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 | 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 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...
