by Tacuma Roeback | Oct 3, 2017 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON – St. Martin, one of the Caribbean islands ravaged by a hurricane last month, aims to restore its economy by late 2018, according to the Dutch ambassador to the United States. “Everything I hear is that we’re going to lose this tourist season,” Ambassador...
by Tacuma Roeback | Sep 27, 2017 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON — As Mexico continues to recover from three earthquakes in two weeks, mourners gathered at the Mexican embassy this week for a vigil commemorating the dead and missing – but also to call attention to 43 college students who mysteriously vanished three...
by Ritu Prasad & Katie Watkins | Aug 31, 2017 | Environment, Featured, Science + Technology
It was June 29, and Dexter Rawlings had finished his first day of on-the-job training, installing solar panels on the rooftops of Washington. After hours under the unforgiving summer sun, he arrived home, exhausted. But an email was waiting for him with an encouraging...
by Beixi Xu | Aug 29, 2017 | Environment, Politics, Topics
WASHINGTON- After a lengthy process, U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has sent a draft report to President Donald Trump regarding the future statuses of dozens of national monuments that were targeted for review. In a statement, the department did not specify...
by Jacob Rogers | Aug 23, 2017 | Environment
WASHINGTON- As the world continues to turn away from fossil fuels, and replace it with reliable power that is still affordable, it’s worth asking where your community gets its electrical power that is not generated by fossil fuels. In Illinois the overwhelming answer...
