We all use microplastics, we just don't know it. According to NOAA, Microplastics are "Microbeads are tiny pieces of polyethylene plastic added to health and beauty products, such as some cleansers and toothpastes." That's right, the things that we use in our daily lives to help us and our appearance are in fact hurting the [...]
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Data is the future of journalism
As someone who wants to go into sports reporting when I graduate, I've always loved statistics. I remember sitting at my kitchen table as a kid, pouring over the baseball box scores over breakfast, trying to soak in all the numbers I could. Outside of that, I never really thought about the data in terms [...]
How pipelines became personal
I'll be honest. Before I began researching for this class, I didn't really care about pipelines. I knew that pipelines were a problem for the communities they affected, but it never impacted me personally. That all changed when I started researching pipelines for this class. In my time working through my project for this class, [...]
A guide to pipelines in Ohio
Pipelines have become a national issue recently. Whether it be people protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline (which quickly became national) or even people conducting smaller, more local protests of pipelines, the nation is quickly beginning to pay attention. That being said, pipelines are prevalent everything — even in Ohio. Right now there are five active pipelines [...]
Ohio’s water could be a big problem. Soon
When you think of tainted water in the United States, you probably think of Flint, Michigan. And for good reason. Flint's water crisis has been going on since 2014, and it doesn't look like it's going to come to an end any time soon. But what if I told you that Ohio could [...]
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