If you’ve been following the updates and blog posts corresponding to our story on sea lampreys and Asian carp, you may have noticed that some of our story elements were updated last week. We were able to include some new (fabulous) photos courtesy of McKenna Corson. We updated some of the custom graphics from Addie [...]
What is Zero Waste? Zero waste is a social movement that encourages people to completely eliminate garbage that would end up in a landfill, an incinerator or the environment. Zero Waste movements have emerged all over the United States and internationally as well. Many Zero Waste initiatives start off as grassroots initiatives that blooms into [...]
Electronic waste, nicknamed e-waste, is increasingly becoming a global problem. Electronic waste describes discarded electrical or electronic devices. Often, people buy new electronics, like smart phones, despite ours being fully functional. The average American only keeps a cell phone for 18 months before discarding it. These devices pile up in landfills across the globe and [...]
Bisphenol A. An industrial chemical that has been used to make plastic since the 1960’s. You may hear it referred to as BPA when your friends talk about a water bottle left in a hot car. Many studies have been done on this chemical, including some done by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). According [...]
Just a few weeks after Nexus began operating some parts of the pipeline in Northeast Ohio, Summit County officials are proposing a plan in case of emergency. County Executive Ilene Shapiro and two county council members have proposed the creation of a pipeline emergency fund. The Akron Beacon Journal reports that the money will come [...]
Now that we’re past the first round of our group projects, we’re looking into how we can best assist WKSU, Kent State’s NPR station, with creating multi-layered and engaging content based off of our reporting. The best way to do so? With data, of course! Data collection can help reporters in lots of ways-- and [...]
Gov. John Kasich Kasich has been notable for his continued support of renewable energy regulations, even as members of his party attempt to weaken them. In late 2016, he vetoed a legislation that would have made state renewable standards voluntary for the next two years. Kasich has urged lawmakers and future office holders to stop [...]
Two weeks ago Ella Abbott and I traveled to Stratton, Ohio, where we discovered a sense of disapproval over the closing of the W.H. Sammis Power plant, a coal-fired facility. Even though the fossil fuel power station emits carbon dioxide (CO2), a greenhouse gas which is a major contributor to climate change, some community members [...]
I've been assigned to cover and investigate water quality issues in Ohio. I'm currently in the process of looking into water testing in public schools. In order to get a better sense of how the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency is involved with water testing in schools, I browsed on their website and tried to read [...]
The International Union for the Conservation of Nature currently lists 24 bat species as critically endangered, 53 as endangered and 104 vulnerable. 226 bat species are identified as “data deficient,” or not enough information available to determine their conservation status by the IUCN. Of the 1,296 bat species assessed by the IUCN, about one-third is [...]
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