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By: Kyleigh CoyOctober 30, 2025 Tuesday a truck carrying Rhesus monkeys on a Mississippi highway overturned releasing the monkeys from captivity. 21 primates were in the truck when the accident occurred on Interstate 59, north…
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By: Heather Farr It has been a little over a month since the catastrophic train derailment happened in Ohio. Since then, Ohio Attorney General David Yost filed a 58-count federal lawsuit against the train company,…
By: Colin Schroyer February 28, 2022: Starting on Thursday, February 23, and continuing into the following days, the state of California was hit by a historic blizzard in the nation’s most significant winter storm. All…
By: Hannah Stoughton Nov. 18th, 2022: After a ruthless snowstorm moved into New York, some parts of the state have been left buried under two feet of snow, with more expected as the lake-effect snowstorm…
By: Bianca Fenstermacher Oct. 12th, 2022: Hurricane Ian killed at least 120 people across the state of Florida and at least five have been reported dead in North Carolina. When Ian made landfall on September…
By: Hannah Stoughton Sept. 19th, 2022: Thiel College student body is presented with a number of changes, and renovations as the semester began. A lot has happened on the Tomcat campus over the summer and…
By: Virginia Riddle Environmental “win-wins”, or objectives that have little negative environmental impact, are becoming more and more difficult to come by. An example of an environmental win-win would be the mass fishing of shrimp…
By: Virginia Riddle $725 million has been budgeted for nearly half the country to clean up abandoned mine lands (AML). Pennsylvania is receiving the largest chunk of these funds, at $245 million. These efforts are…
By: Virginia Riddle Community groups in New Jersey and California are suing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for the overwhelming number of pollutants being emitted from trash incinerators. The suits were filed on January 13…
By Virginia Riddle Friday, December 3rd, the U.S. Supreme Court denied the request of Maine lobster fishers to lift fishing restrictions that were set in place to protect North Atlantic right whales. Lobstering groups claimed…
Photo Credit: National Congress of the American Indians By: Samantha Walker Washington, DC, NOV. 3: Last Wednesday National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) President Fawn Sharp was announced as a delegate for the 26th United…
By: Virginia Riddle Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s billionaire founder, pledged during a Glasgow climate summit to put $2 billion towards restoring environmental habitats and food systems. On top of this, he plans to have Amazon power…
Grant to Bessemer & Lake Erie Railroad will cut harmful diesel emissions HERMITAGE, Nov. 1 – Grant funding of $2.9 million will allow Bessemer & Lake Erie Railroad Co. to reduce its fleet’s diesel emissions by…
By: Virginia Riddle The University of Michigan (U-M) was granted $13 million from the National Cancer Institute to track how exposure to environmental contaminants could lead to cancer. The grant will be put into U-M’s…
