environment

Occasionally, our Perspectives author Elsa Glover turns over regularly scheduled spot to her colleagues and students who have something to say. This time,…

Electricity and environmental advocates offered their pitches to Illinois state senators this week on how to reduce a portion of the state’s carbon...

High schools promote a four year college degree to students, often placing less priority on other options like vocational training, two year degrees and...

Down the road from Ogle County’s Solid Waste office in Oregon is a can crusher. It looks like a top heavy white shed, a rectangle on top of a square. You…

Spruce trees are a common choice for Christmas decorations, but a regional fungal disease can strip away their needles.Rhizosphaera Needle Cast is a…

There’s no denying the Bald Hill Prairie Preserve is a pretty special place. Last year, the Byron Forest Preserve District acquired the gravel hill…

One man’s prairie is another man’s patch of weeds. That’s the debate that is unfolding in DeKalb over a proposed rewrite of the city’s “weeds…

A new poll from Southern Illinois University's Paul Simon Public Policy Institute had surprising results for environmentalists. The institute surveyed one…

Starting Saturday, the Hazardous Waste Site in Rockford will no longer accept latex paint due to changes in the hazardous waste list.The Illinois…

A mysterious fungus is threatening to wipe out some isolated populations of rare rattlesnakes. In Illinois, the fungus infects about 15 percent of eastern…