Through activities like nighttime hikes and studying Rock River’s plants, students learned how to appreciate nature and how to work together.
Students, teachers mourn the closure of historic Illinois outdoor camp: ‘Greatest memories of our lives’
Category: Environment
Chicagoans embracing leaves: ‘What falls in my yard stays in my yard.’
Leave the Leaves campaigns aim to provide food and shelter for insects at a time when studies show drastic population declines.
Azerbaijan is the host of the UN’s climate conference, shining a spotlight on the petrostate
Diplomats from across the world will descend on the capital Baku for the annual climate summit, known as COP29, to discuss how to avoid increasing threats from climate change in a place that was one of the birthplaces of the oil industry.
Climate agency says this will likely be the hottest year on record — again
News of a likely second year of record heat comes a day after Republican Donald Trump, who has called climate change a “hoax” and promised to boost oil drilling and production, was reelected to the presidency.
Gateway Plaza green space opens to complement Morton Grove Metra station redevelopment
A day after officials held the groundbreaking ceremony for the new $4 million Metra rail station in Morton Grove, an unveiling was held for nearby green space that will complement the depot redevelopment. Over 50 people gathered Oct. 24 at Gateway Plaza, a new green space in Morton Grove located south of Lincoln Avenue at Ferris Avenue, for a ribbon cutting where Trustee Janine Witko delivered the opening remarks. Work had begun the week of Aug. 12 on the $250,000 Gateway Plaza project. It consists of a public plaza, benches, bicycle parking racks, planting beds and the commemorative bricks. Witko […]
Are EV sales slowing — or setting new records? The correct answer is, both.
From 2021 to 2022, estimated annual electric vehicle sales increased 65%. In the most recent quarter of this year, year-over-year growth was about 11%.
The Taurid meteor showers peak a week apart in November
The Southern Taurids will reach their zenith early Tuesday morning and the Northern Taurids on Nov. 12.
IUN to host community conversations focused on decarbonization in steel
Conversations about decarbonization have become more common in the last year, one local consultant said, and Indiana University Northwest is trying to add to that trend.
At U.N. summit, historic agreement to give Indigenous groups voice on nature conservation decisions
After two weeks of negotiations, delegates on Saturday agreed at the United Nations conference on biodiversity to establish a subsidiary body that will include Indigenous peoples in future decisions on nature conservation, a development that builds on a growing movement to recognize the role of the descendants of some regions’ original inhabitants in protecting land and combating climate change.
NWI residents, activists attend IDEM public meeting for Tradebe permit
Northwest Indiana residents and environmental activists on Wednesday attended a public meeting to voice their concerns about a potential permit for Tradebe. The Indiana Department of Environmental Management hosted a meeting at Calumet College of St. Joseph in Whiting. IDEM’s Office of Air Quality issues air pollution control permits to sources that emit regulated levels of pollutants into the air, according to the agency. Tradebe, a Barcelona-based waste management company, has a hazardous waste storage and treatment facility at 4343 Kennedy Ave. in East Chicago. IDEM’s public meeting focused on a drum shredder at Tradebe’s East Chicago location. A drum […]