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Occasionally, our Perspectives author Elsa Glover turns over regularly scheduled spot to her colleagues and students who have something to say. This time,…
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Electricity and environmental advocates offered their pitches to Illinois state senators this week on how to reduce a portion of the state’s carbon...
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High schools promote a four year college degree to students, often placing less priority on other options like vocational training, two year degrees and...
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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…
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Spruce trees are a common choice for Christmas decorations, but a regional fungal disease can strip away their needles.Rhizosphaera Needle Cast is a…
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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…
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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…
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A new poll from Southern Illinois University's Paul Simon Public Policy Institute had surprising results for environmentalists. The institute surveyed one…
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Starting Saturday, the Hazardous Waste Site in Rockford will no longer accept latex paint due to changes in the hazardous waste list.The Illinois…
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A mysterious fungus is threatening to wipe out some isolated populations of rare rattlesnakes. In Illinois, the fungus infects about 15 percent of eastern…