environment

The Sierra Club started as a hiking organization, but has expanded its outreach to include advocating for the environment. Nick Dodson and Elizabeth Scrafford from the Sangamon Valley Sierra Club spoke about how they started their journey in environmental activism. Dodson and Scrafford also explained how people can join the organization and help support the environment.

The Sierra Club started as a hiking organization, but has expanded its outreach to include advocating for the environment. Nick Dodson and Elizabeth Scrafford from the Sangamon Valley Sierra Club spoke about how they started their journey in environmental activism. Dodson and Scrafford also explained how people can join the organization and help support the environment.

During his first year in office, President Donald Trump has rescinded or repealed many of his predecessor’s policies aimed at curbing climate change and…

As soybean and cotton farmers across the Midwest and South continue to see their crops ravaged from the weed killer dicamba, new complaints have pointed...

A record-setting "dead zone," where water doesn't have enough oxygen for fish to survive, has appeared this summer. One major cause is pollution from farms.

Soil coats my hands and a sun beats down on me. I've spent hours now in the September sun. My pants are covered in mud and I can feel the sunburn start to…

A few years ago, Illinois adopted regulations for high-volume horizontal fracking, but it was slow to get the permitting process up and running.Those in…

Economic growth. Or the environment. Pollsters at Southern Illinois University's Paul Simon Public Policy Institute put them head to head. Read on to hear…

The Monarch butterfly population has dropped dramatically in recent years, and the federal government is now considering endangered species protection for…

Bees are essential to our lives, yet they are dying by the thousands. Experts say there's no one solution for protecting them. Chemicals commonly sprayed…