Tag Archives: Climate Change

Today is the last day to register to vote in Indiana, ahead of November’s midterm elections; City of Bloomington Communications Director Yael Ksander made the announcement the city will change Columbus Day to Indigenous People’s Day; Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb, business leaders, and local officials met with Amazon representatives in Indianapolis this morning; Businesses in Bloomington are reporting dissatisfaction with …

Climate researchers are predicting Indiana will have warmer and wetter, winters and springs in the coming decades. What does that mean for the state’s agriculture sector? WFHB’s Norm Holy has been exploring this question with Purdue Agronomy Professor Laura Bowling. She is the lead author of a study on the future of agriculture from Purdue’s Climate Change Research Center. In …

Indiana Senator Joe Donnelly weighed in on the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court Justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh; Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb’s proposed one billion dollar infrastructure plan did not seek input from the state’s legislature; Second Lady Karen Pence will be in Indiana tomorrow; The Second Annual South Central Indiana Opioid Summit begins tomorrow; Electric scooters have popped up at bike racks across Bloomington; The …

The Indiana Department of Transportation will close Highway 37 ramps at the Walnut Street interchange tomorrow; Indiana motorists are paying 10 cents more for gas than they were a year ago; Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb announced his plans yesterday to spend an additional 1 billion dollars on infrastructure projects across the state; Fall Midterm elections take place nine weeks from today; Over half of …

This week, WFHB correspondent Norm Holy talks about climate change and Indiana forests with Indiana University Biologist Dr. Richard Phillips. This is Part 2 of a two part interview.

In the book of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible, Yahweh rejects the grain offering of the farmer, Cain, while accepting the flesh offering of his brother, the shepherd Abel. Cain, wounded by this rejection, murders his brother. The consequence is banishment to the Land of Nod, which appears to be more a state of being than an actual place–Nod being …

The Bloomington Police Department is dropping their investigation into vandalism at the Islamic Center of Bloomington; A northern Indiana college has won its long-running lawsuit, seeking a religious exemption from paying for employees’ birth control; Construction on Section 6 of Interstate 69 is expected to start next year; The newly-renovated Bloomington Animal Shelter opened to the public, earlier this week. …

In today’s feature report, our environmental correspondent Norm Holy talks with Purdue University’s Jeffrey Dukes. Dr. Dukes is the Director of Purdue Climate Change Research Center, and leads a global network of climate researchers. Based on his team’s recent work, Dr. Dukes gives us an eye into the changes in weather patterns Hoosiers can expect in coming decades.

This week, WFHB’s Norm Holy speaks with Jeff Dukes about his work on climate assessments for Indiana.

This week, we’ll hear a presentation from Jeff Dukes, the Director of the Purdue Climate Change Research Center.