Eco Report

A Feature about Aquaponics: what it is and how it is being taught in Indiana schools

The International Union for the Conservation of Nature carried out a detailed, multi-year study showing that climate collapse and environmental degradation are fueling violence against women and girls and that gender-based exploitation is hurting our ability to tackle the environmental crises. The global fossil fuel industry emits 25-40 percent more methane than previously thought, a study published in Nature found. This includes …

A Feature from Indiana Environmental Reporter’s Beth Edwards on the implications of changes to snowfall amounts in Indiana as a result of climate change.

The Sargasso Sea, in the heart of the Bermuda Triangle, is a massive ocean ecosystem with floating forests of gold seaweed called Sargassum that harbor creatures existing nowhere else on the planet. The floating forests are a crucial safe haven for baby sea turtles and other marine life vulnerable to predators. According to a new survey by the Pew Research …

The Australian Supreme Court has stepped in to put an immediate halt to a logging project in east Victoria while it waits for cases about the health of native species to be heard in court. If you look at the Nobel Prize website page, Svante August Arrhenius was born in 1859, the son of Svante Gustaf Arrhenius and Carolina Christina …

A report from Indiana Environmental Reporter on Youth Climate Change Action Day.  The reporter is Beth Edwards.

The tiny rural town of Dale, in southwestern Indiana, has been fighting off a proposed coal-to-diesel refinery to be built on five hundred twelve acres of farmland on the edge of town. The Environmental Working Group has reported on a proposal before the Indiana legislature. It shows that humor is not dead. Whereas whale oil provides bright, dependable light that …

 The iconic Doomsday Clock, symbolizing the gravest perils facing humankind, is now closer to midnight than at any point since its creation in nineteen forty-seven. Madagascar has embarked on its most ambitious tree-planting drive yet, aiming to plant sixty million trees in the coming months. The mounting climate emergency may spur the next global financial crisis, and the world’s central …