Environmental
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Earth Day 2024: How suburban communities are celebrating the historic environmental holidayApr 19, 2024 5:44 pm - Many Aprils ago, 10% of the entire U.S. population demonstrated in cities across the nation for the first Earth Day celebration. It was April 22, 1970, and there was no E...
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Climate change concerns grow, but few think Biden's climate law will help, an AP-NORC poll finds
Apr 18, 2024 7:39 am - Like many Americans, Ron Theusch is getting more worried about climate change. A resident of Alden, Minnesota, Theusch has noticed increasingly dry and mild winters punct...
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Morton Arboretum, Shedd Aquarium report conservation progress after one year as global Centers for Species SurvivalApr 17, 2024 7:02 pm - A year after the Morton Arboretum and the Shedd Aquarium became two of just 18 global Centers for Species Survival, the two budding Chicagoland institutions have traveled the world conducting conservation and research efforts.
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Looking for a great opportunity to make an ‘Earth Week’ difference?Apr 16, 2024 1:27 pm - The Northwest Council of the Sierra Club, in partnership with the Prospect Heights Natural Resource Commission (PH-NRC), Commonwealth Edison, Prospect Heights Park Distri...
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Spring cleaning: Volunteers pick up trash on miles of area bike trailsApr 10, 2024 12:01 pm - Bike Palatine Club vice president Kevin Keehn often wondered who picked up all the roadside trash after a long winter. That question led him on a personal mission of picking up litter along Northwest suburban roads/trails where he annually cycles a couple thousand miles.
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Warm winter kick-started allergy season, giving a preview of what’s to comeApr 09, 2024 6:15 pm - Every weekday around 7 a.m., Dr. Rachna Shah heads to the roof of Gottlieb Memorial Hospital in Melrose Park to collect a microscope slide full of pollen. As an allergist...
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Will China flood the globe with EVs, green tech? What's behind latest US-China trade fight
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With cicadas emerging this spring, here’s how to protect your trees and shrubsApr 06, 2024 5:30 am - As the rare dual emergence of the 13- and 17-year periodical cicada broods approaches, experts say some trees and shrubs might need protection ahead of the once in a lif...
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Invaders from underground are coming in cicada-geddon. It’s the biggest bug emergence in centuriesApr 06, 2024 5:15 am - Trillions of evolution’s bizarro wonders, red-eyed periodical cicadas that have pumps in their heads and jet-like muscles in their rears, are about to emerge in numbers n...
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Keeping water cleaner: New street sweeper has message for Lake County residentsApr 05, 2024 8:47 pm - Sweeping removes pollutants and helps protect waterways, transportation officials say Besides cleaning, the Lake County Division of Transportation’s new street sweep...