WATCH: Spirit of the team: Athlete turns tragedy into inspiration
By Elena Shklyar Medill Reports The Northwestern volleyball team’s 2022 season was one for the books. The Wildcats reached their highest rating percentage index (RPI)
Weatherize windows to save on heating bills in Chicago
By Diana Giambona Medill Reports As temperatures dip down near zero in Chicago and furnaces are running at full blast, experts recommend weatherizing windows. Simple
WATCH: ‘When Percussion Strikes’: Educator helps connects Chinese community with their music, culture
By Hanzhi Chen Medill Reports Brent Roman is a multi-instrumentalist specializing in percussion. He considers himself a percussionist, music director, educator, sound designer and world
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
Scientists track tipping points of climate change
By Chelsea Zhao Medill Reports Crystal Rao, a geoscience graduate student at Princeton University, bases her research on environmental changes and impacts on species using
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
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
Stalagmites reveal clues to changing ocean currents, changing climate
By Ilana Wolchinsky Medill Reports Climatologist Laura Endres began her Ph.D. a year ago at ETH Zürich in the paleoclimate field, drawing on her background
Will evaporation dry up water sources as climate change worsens?
By Gabrielle Rancifer Medill Reports “If we didn’t have evaporation, we wouldn’t have water in the atmosphere,” said Thomas Lowell, a geology professor at the
Alaskan memories inspire climate change work
By Grace Finnell-Gudwien and Gabrielle Rancifer Medill Reports Every year as a child, oceanographer Joellen Russell watched the sea ice break apart and float out
1 dating method, 3 ecosystems, many clues to pace of climate change
By Grace Finnell-Gudwien Medill Reports Inside caves, lakes and corals, small crystals dot the landscapes and scaffold into majestic pillars up to 4 meters high.
Time-lapse, satellite imagery show how meltwater plumes trigger calving ice
By Kala Hunter Medill Reports As Greenland’s glaciers melt from an abruptly warming climate, scientists are studying how mammoth glaciers are losing their ice. The