5+ hour, 9+ min ago  (684+ words) CHAMPAIGN, Ill. " It's 5: 14 a. m. , and the sun hasn't come up yet. I'm at the Illinois Arboretum parking lot among a crowd of 70 students, faculty and community members, all awaiting the beginning of the same event " interdisciplinary artist Deke Weaver's sunrise tree planting…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (690+ words) I got to see somebody who looked sort of like me as a woman out there in the wild doing amazing research," Terio said. A little later, a family friend gave Terio Goodall's book, In the Shadow of Man," about…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (366+ words) CHAMPAIGN, Ill. " Illinois interdisciplinary artist Deke Weaver will create the multimedia performance "FOREST" over the next 18 months that will explore the forest ecosystem and the connections between plant and animal species. He'll present the first iterations of "FOREST" at two upcoming…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1030+ words) CHAMPAIGN, Ill. " In April 2019, a marine heat wave struck a coral reef on the island of Moorea in French Polynesia, killing much of the coral and the beneficial algae that colonized it. This "bleaching" event reduced live coral populations on the…...