Aug 3, 2023 | News, News Releases
Today’s farmers are on the front lines of climate change. Higher temperatures, wildly variable rainfall, and unrelenting droughts, storms, and floods have upended growing seasons and threatened their livelihoods. “Climate-smart agriculture” promises a more sustainable...
Aug 2, 2023 | iSEE Research, News, News Releases, SMARTFARM Project
Earth’s soil contains large stocks of carbon — even more carbon than in the atmosphere. A significant portion of this soil carbon is in organic form (carbon bound to carbon), called soil organic carbon (SOC). However, SOC has historically been greatly diminished by...
May 8, 2023 | iSEE Research, News Releases, SMARTFARM Project
A study led by researchers at the Agroecosystem Sustainability Center (ASC) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign quantifies the soil organic carbon (SOC) benefits from cover crops in maize-soybean rotations in Midwestern U.S. agroecosystems. The study,...
May 2, 2023 | Levenick Fellows, News, News Releases
EDITOR’S NOTE: This article was written in February 2023, and then updated in May 2023 after the author spoke with students in EPOL 421. In Spring 2023, 30 graduate students studied the history, theory, and practice of sustainability education in EPOL 421, Education...
Apr 12, 2023 | Campus Sustainability, News, News Releases
Twenty years ago, the University of Illinois and its undergraduates took their first serious steps in fighting climate change — actions that have now led to massive strides for campus sustainability. In 2003, the Illinois Student Government proposed a referendum that...
Apr 7, 2023 | iSEE Research, News, News Releases
The Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment (iSEE) is providing seed funding for two new research projects at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign that will use automation to enhance waste sorting for campus recycling efforts and reduce manual...