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Environment

Ice Landscape Snow Frost Trees Forest Bicycle

Understanding and Combatting SADs

By Bailey Shelden March 25, 2017

Winter is inevitable in Utah. For a large portion of the year Utah will be cold, and it will be dark. As someone from California, I do not welcome winter with open arms, but nevertheless it arrives...

America's Infrastructure Needs Better Life Support

America’s Infrastructure Needs Better Life Support

March 3, 2017

America is not only one of the most advanced country on earth, it is also one of the largest — both geographically and in population. With that fact comes a responsibility. To keep everything flowing...

Presidents Circle

Conservation One Drop at a Time

March 1, 2017

Water is the world’s most valuable life source. Without water, there is no us. So what is going to happen when we get to those last few droplets at the bottom on the lake? We’re running low on snow...

Why We Protect the Environment

Why We Protect the Environment

February 22, 2017

In government, we rarely notice what’s going well. While corruption and inefficiency take the center stage in political discussions, tangible benefits of government programs are often harder to see....

The EPA's not perfect, but it has a purpose

The EPA’s not perfect, but it has a purpose

February 16, 2017

It might have been forgotten in the midst of the travel ban and all the other things going on, but the gag orders put on the EPA and the USDA are still significant. Barred from talking about environmental...

Utah Should Switch to Solar Energy

Utah Should Switch to Solar Energy

February 8, 2017

Utah is the second most wasteful state in the U.S. Everyone always complains about how much construction there is all the time — on campus you can't walk 10 steps without running into another pit or...

SLC Must Step Up Recycling Game

SLC Must Step Up Recycling Game

January 30, 2017

As a self-proclaimed environmentalist, I take recycling seriously. I bought three trash cans so I could sort and recycle my garbage. It was only after I'd spent hours organizing my garbage that I realized...

Friends combine their efforts to build a giant snowman during a snow storm Friday on Stilwell Field near student housing at the University of Utah.

The Snow Never Bothered Me Anyway

January 18, 2017

Jack Frost has arrived, and he has been bringing us presents. He’s clearly still in the giving spirit. Yet every winter people complain about the inconveniences that snow brings, and no one really takes...

Biologists at the U Follow Birds on 10,000 Kilometer Migration

Biologists at the U Follow Birds on 10,000 Kilometer Migration

November 15, 2016

Biologists from the U followed a species of songbird known as Great Reed Warblers from the Middle East to sub-Sahara Africa using lightweight geolocation technology. The team from the U along with Turkish...

Dakota Pipeline Protests and America's Ugly Past

Dakota Pipeline Protests and America’s Ugly Past

By Connor Richards September 22, 2016

Over 2,000 environmentalists, activists and members of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe have spent the year protesting the construction of a crude oil pipeline that would carry hundreds of thousands of barrels...