By Emily Little Medill Reports Finding solutions to climate science takes multi-faceted collaboration from physicists, chemists, earth scientists and engineers in several different fields. The
By Natalie Eilbert Medill Reports Lead and other heavy metals have laced everyday life in Pilsen and Little Village since the Industrial Revolution. Whether detected
By Thomas Smith Medill Reports Most couples were hunkering down amid the COVID-19 pandemic, but Izzy and Darwin spent the lockdown visiting some of Chicago’s
By Thomas Smith Medill Reports Scientists are making discoveries about the Earth’s climate by studying single-celled protists that lived hundreds of thousands of years ago.
By Shivani Majmudar Medill Reports Amid a global pandemic and a year of social unrest, a long-standing public health crisis was highlighted: racial disparities in
By Grace Rodgers Medill Reports Melting freshwater icebergs raise critical questions about ocean circulation. However, to find answers to what’s happening on ocean surfaces, some
By Thomas Smith Medill Reports While carbon and oxygen are necessary for human life, CO2 is also a thermostat for the planet and carbon dioxide
By Caroline Catherman and Carlyn Kranking Medill Reports Urban farms and community gardens in Chicago produce over 500,000 pounds of crops in a year, according
By Kelly Milan Medill Reports The day seemed to fit the odd year — sunny and 75 in November, sweater and shorts, masks and hand
By Grace Rodgers Medill Reports In a race against climate change, Yuxin Zhou, 26, is among the next generation of climate scientists studying the Earth’s