Jess Savage
Environment ReporterJess is the environmental reporter at Northern Public Radio based in DeKalb, Illinois. They are a Report for America corps member covering agriculture and the environment throughout the Mississippi River Basin. They also regularly contribute food and farm stories to Harvest Public Media.
Savage completed their master's degree from Northwestern University's journalism program, where they specialized in health, environment and science reporting.
Before moving to Illinois, they studied ecology and natural resources at the University of Vermont. For their honors thesis, they researched the impacts of climate change on agriculture systems in New England.
They grew up on the north shore of Massachusetts, where their dad took them out clamming and lobstering on the Parker River. Savage worked on several farms over the years and spend most of their weekends exploring farmers markets throughout Chicago.
To reach Jess, send story ideas, recipes, book recommendations or other ideas to jsavage2@niu.edu.
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Los centros de datos están llegando a Illinois, y la respuesta a este futuro ha sido mixta entre residentes y funcionarios. La Coalición de Empleos Limpios de Illinois está organizando docenas de reuniones de estilo ayuntamiento sobre centros de datos en todo el estado, incluyendo una en Galena este miércoles. -
Data centers are coming to Illinois, and the response to this future has been mixed among residents and officials. The Illinois Clean Jobs Coalition is hosting dozens of town hall-style meetings about data centers across the state, including one in Galena this past Wednesday.
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One organization in the upper Mississippi River basin is accepting proposals for habitat restoration projects that benefit the land, the water and even people. -
El virus del Nilo Occidental se detectó recientemente en mosquitos en el condado de DeKalb. Las enfermedades transmitidas por mosquitos matan a cientos de miles de personas cada año. Algunos historiadores creen que han matado a aproximadamente la mitad de todos los humanos que han vivido.Un profesor de Northern Illinois University recibió una subvención de $ 40,000 para estudiar una importante incógnita: qué bacterias transportan los mosquitos. -
West Nile virus was recently detected in mosquitoes in DeKalb County. Mosquito-borne illnesses kill hundreds of thousands of people each year. Some historians believe they've killed about half of all humans who have ever lived.One Northern Illinois University professor received a $40,000 grant to study a major unknown: what bacteria mosquitoes carry.
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The nature center, which will soon be called Wild Roots, is using the grant to turn the golf course to prairie and oak savanna. -
This weekend, the Natural Land Institute is opening the Silver Creek Woods Preserve for what it calls a BioBlitz. -
Illinois is experiencing the wettest June in years. -
A new guide for farmers' trusted advisors is out. The Nature Conservancy says it's going make regenerative agriculture easier to adopt in the Midwest and beyond. -
Summer's here. If parents are still looking for ways to get their kids outdoors and away from screens, they might consider this technology-free farm camp in Caledonia.
