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Lucia Whalen is a freelance journalist focused on issues related to health, science, and the environment. She is a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism where she received the Comer Scholarship to report on the environment.
Dear Big Oil, This is hard for me, the government, to write, because I love you so much, and we've been together for so long that I can barely imagine life without you. But I feel that our relationship is toxic and that you've been manipulating me for years.
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Cavin Park was working for the Quinault Indian Reservation's invasive plant crew when he watched a towering crane stack logs 100 feet across the bed of the Upper Quinault River. Pile drivers 70-feet high stood against the backdrop of the foggy, spruce-filled woods that give Washington's Pacific coast its spirit of mysterious beauty.
Plans have been afoot for months for scrap metal recycler General Iron to move its operations from Lincoln Park to Hegewisch in 2021.
By Lucia Whalen Medill Reports Before China halted the importation of plastic and other recycling waste from around the globe, the majority of Americans were living in a fool's paradise. For most people, recycling ended at dumping paper, plastic and glass in a large bin - blue in Chicago.
By Lucia Whalen Medill Reports Hamburg is home to one of the fastest-thinking supercomputers in the world at the German Climate Computing Center (DKRZ). The supercomputer whizzes through global tsunamis of climate data to develop climate models used in landmark blueprints for the future, including the most recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report.
"Our project was not created for the Chicago Prize submission. We've been working on a lot of these projects for years, a couple of them a decade." Invisible Institute and Forensic Architecture reconstruct the police shooting of Harith Augustus-and contest the city's story
By Lucia Whalen Medill Reports The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration updated its weather prediction system this June with a climate model that will include data from updated oceanic science, allowing for more accurate climate change-related severe weather forecasting. The new weather model, called Finite-Volume Cube-Sphere dynamical core (FV3), also provides faster forecasts and can [...]