Aug 3, 2023 | News, News Releases
Today’s farmers are on the front lines of climate change. Higher temperatures, wildly variable rainfall, and unrelenting droughts, storms, and floods have upended growing seasons and threatened their livelihoods. “Climate-smart agriculture” promises a more sustainable...
Apr 12, 2023 | Campus Sustainability, News, News Releases
Twenty years ago, the University of Illinois and its undergraduates took their first serious steps in fighting climate change — actions that have now led to massive strides for campus sustainability. In 2003, the Illinois Student Government proposed a referendum that...
Feb 20, 2023 | Illinois Regenerative Agriculture Initiative, iSEE Research, News, News Releases
Deep within our bodies, millions of microbes help digest our food and provide nutrients to keep us healthy. It’s a symbiotic relationship that dates back millennia, when the first bacteria appeared on Earth 3.5 billion years ago. Ubiquitous in the soil and...
Feb 7, 2023 | CEW Profiles, News, News Releases
Anyone who’s thrown a baseball is familiar with Newton’s First Law: Objects in motion will continue in a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force. No one understands this concept better than Zack Fishman. A 2019 graduate of the University of Illinois...
Jan 17, 2023 | Campus Sustainability, News, News Releases
Running a marathon, bicycling a century, or swimming 1,500 meters requires a lot of energy. Finding that energy, however, is a different matter entirely. The world’s most elite athletes spend years tinkering with and perfecting exactly how their energy consumption...