Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 30:10 — 41.5MB)Subscribe: RSSThis is the WFHB Local News for Monday, December 27th, 2021. Over the next two weeks, we will take a look back at the stories we covered in the year 2021. In today’s episode, we will review local environmental stories from the last year. You will hear Sophie Hall …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 30:00 — 41.3MB)Subscribe: RSSThis is the WFHB Local News for Wednesday December 22nd, 2021. Later in the program, Covid-19 cases are on the rise across the state as Indiana reported its first positive case involving the Omicron variant. Also coming up in the next half hour, the Log4J Mess on Better Beware …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 30:15 — 41.6MB)Subscribe: RSSThis is the WFHB Local News for Wednesday, October 13th, 2021. Later in the program, Monroe County Residents Against Annexation have begun the process to remonstrate, or formally challenge, Mayor John Hamilton’s annexation plan. More coming up in the bottom half of tonight’s show. Also coming up in the …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 11:46 — 16.2MB)Subscribe: RSSWhen you think of drylands, what first comes to mind? A field of zebras galloping across the savannas of Africa. Or, perhaps, a rattlesnake slithering past cacti in the deserts of Arizona. Maybe you think of a herd of cattle, munching their way through the Great Plains of the …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 30:00 — 41.3MB)Subscribe: RSSThis is the WFHB Local News for Thursday, July 22nd, 2021. Later in the program, we revisit two stories from WFHB Correspondents Max Campbell and Robert Robinson on Bloomington annexation and a lawsuit filed against Indiana University over its vaccine mandate. More in the bottom half of our show. …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 30:00 — 41.3MB)Subscribe: RSSThis is the WFHB Local News for Thursday, April 1st, 2021. This week, we present a four-part WFHB News Special where we revisit the stories we covered over the last year. We selected four areas of reporting, which include: Homelessness in Bloomington, the Coronavirus Pandemic, Social Justice Reporting and …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 26:37 — 18.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreYour environmental headlines: Every year over one hundred climate scientists fly far into the wilderness and bore deep into Greenland’s largest glacier. Their work is complicated and important. The project is trying to understand how ice streams underneath the glacier are pushing vast amounts of ice into …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 30:00 — 41.3MB)Subscribe: RSS | More31 more deaths were added to Indiana’s coronavirus dashboard. 394 new cases were confirmed. Overall deaths are at 661 people. Total cases are at 12,907. Governor Eric Holcomb announced Tuesday that in spite of the growing numbers, he is working on the early stages of re-opening the …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 2:14 — 1.4MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreBLOOMINGTON – Hoosier Energy announced last Tuesday their plans to close The Merom Generating Station in Sullivan County in 2023, affecting nearly 200 utility workers. Founded in 1949, Hoosier Energy is a non-profit generation and transmission cooperative. It serves 18 member electric cooperatives in central and southern …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 5:42 — 5.8MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThe Hoosier National Forest saw a record year for prescribed fires in 2019. I asked myself what that means to local residents and about the environment’s current condition. To find some answers I took a journey to the headquarters of Hoosier National Forest in Bedford, Indiana. There …
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