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Dec 8, 2024 | 
newsbug.info | Lauren Quinn
In the upper reaches of a Minnesota watershed, the water is so full of dissolved nitrous oxide that University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign hydrologist Zhongjie Yu likens it to a soda can. "If you grab water from the local streams and measure nitrous oxide, the saturation is tens of thousands of times higher than it would be at equilibrium with the atmosphere. In other words, it's super-saturated with this potent greenhouse gas.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
newstribune.com | Lauren Quinn
COMMENTARY: Record number of teachers leaving job Today at 4:00 a.m. by Lauren Quinn Los Angeles Times (TNS) I didn't come to my L.A. school's campus in August to set up my classroom, or spend my last days of summer mapping the upcoming curriculum. Upcoming Events
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
yakimaherald.com | Lauren Quinn
I didn’t come to my L.A. school’s campus in August to set up my classroom, or spend my last days of summer mapping the upcoming curriculum. Instead, I became one of the record number of teachers not returning to the job. Teacher turnover, long a problem in K-12 education, has reached a record high since the pandemic hit, with 10% of educators leaving their jobs in the 2021-22 school year.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
newherald.news | Lauren Quinn
URBANA, IL — A few years back, a group of weed scientists showed that soil-applied herbicides areless effectiveagainst agricultural weeds in the context of our changing climate. Now, the same research group, led by theUSDA Agricultural Research Serviceand theUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, has shown the same is true of post-emergence (POST) herbicides.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
thebrunswicknews.com | Lauren Quinn
I didn't come to my L.A. school's campus in August to set up my classroom, or spend my last days of summer mapping the upcoming curriculum. Instead, I became one of the record number of teachers not returning to the job. Teacher turnover, long a problem in K-12 education, has reached a hit, with 10% of educators leaving their jobs in the 2021-22 school year.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
sacbee.com | Lauren Quinn
I didn’t come to my L.A. school’s campus in August to set up my classroom, or spend my last days of summer mapping the upcoming curriculum. Instead, I became one of the record number of teachers not returning to the job. Teacher turnover, long a problem in K-12 education, has reached a hit, with 10% of educators leaving their jobs in the 2021-22 school year.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
agupdate.com | Lauren Quinn
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Lauren Quinn
A teacher speaks to students in her second-grade class in 2020. Teacher turnover reached a record high after the COVID-19 pandemic hit. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times)I didn’t come to my L.A. school’s campus in August to set up my classroom, or spend my last days of summer mapping the upcoming curriculum. Instead, I became one of the record number of teachers not returning to the job.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
newherald.news | Lauren Quinn
Spotted antbird. Credit: John Whitelaw. URBANA, IL— Changing precipitation patterns in the Neotropics, one of Earth’s most biodiverse regions, could threaten two-thirds of the area’s bird species by the year 2100 if climate change goes unchecked, according to new research led by the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and George Mason University. This would represent a dramatic loss, as the region is home to 30% of all bird species globally.
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Oct 14, 2024 | 
newherald.news | Lauren Quinn
A new study from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign looks at how wetlands are portrayed in film, suggesting they play specific roles in story development and reflect society’s collective perceptions of these unique ecosystems and the cultures they conceal.
"A lot of people today are disconnected from nature, and the way they experience nature is through film or on screen in some way.
