Millennia of ice, atmosphere are stored in this Colorado lab
By Dilpreet Raju Medill Reports Thousands of meters of ice are kept in below-freezing temperatures so climate researchers can analyze what the Earth’s climate was like hundreds of thousands of years ago. Climatologists can then take bits of the ice, which hold thousands of years of undisturbed snow, to extract what concentrations of greenhouse gases […]
Salmonella infections linked to poorer colon cancer outcomes
By Dilpreet Raju Medill Reports Salmonella could pose a much more long-term health risk than just upending weekend plans with food-poisoning symptoms. According to a study published late last year in in part done by researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago, salmonella infection is considered an environmental risk factor for colon cancer. Researchers at […]
PHOTOS: Alice Phoebe Lou fills Thalia Hall for first headline performance in Chicago
By Dilpreet Raju Medill Reports Alice Phoebe Lou and fans jammed to old tunes and new numbers, including a fair amount of unreleased material, on May 13 at Thalia Hall. Lou, who was born and raised in South Africa, called the night a “beautiful milestone.” Prior to this show, she had performed in Chicago only […]
Curbside pickup extended for Illinois medical marijuana patients despite limited availability
By Dilpreet Raju Medill Reports For the second time in a month on Jan. 25, the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR) extended the variance allowing curbside pickup for the state’s medical marijuana patients. Yet curbside pickup — or any pickup — is unavailable in many areas of the state with nearly two-thirds […]
Hands of Doomsday Clock now 90 seconds from midnight
By Dilpreet Raju Medill Reports Scientists and leaders of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved the hands of the Doomsday Clock on Tuesday to their closest ever position to midnight, a metaphorical barometer for how close the planet is to human-forced annihilation. The hands now sit at 90 seconds to midnight. This is the […]
Penn State Ice and Climate Research Center aims to understand our rapidly warming world
By Chelsea Zhao, Dilpreet Raju and Ilana Wolchinsky Medill Reports As the Earth warms, researchers at the Ice and Climate Exploration Research Center (PSICE) at Pennsylvania State University are interested in how we can expect glaciers, those dense bodies of ice that move under their own weight, to react to a drastically changing environment. Extreme […]
The geological importance of caves to time climate change
By Dilpreet Raju Medill Reports Some of the interweaving drivers of Earth’s climate change remain a mystery, but many of the world’s leading paleoclimatologists work every day to fill in the gaps. Paul Töchterle, a geological Ph.D. candidate at the University of Innsbruck in Austria, is working to revise the methods scientists use to date […]
