The Sweltering Late Season Heat Wave in the U.S.
Was 2023 the hottest summer on record? The answer: yes. While tropical-like weather conditions are no stranger to the United States, late August and the first week of September brought…
Floods in Pakistan: How Have You, F&M, the US, and the World Contributed to a Growing Crisis
By Jonah Fisher || Staff Writer On Tuesday night last week, students gathered in the Stohr Auditorium in Stager to hear from three professors. Coming from wildly different perspectives (anthropology,…
“It’s Life and Death”: Texans Freeze as Power Outages Continue
By Erin Maxwell || News Editor Freezing temperatures hitting below 0℉ hit Texas this week as winter storm system Uri coated over 71% of the United States in snow. As…
Grassroots-led, Regenerative Investment is the key to saving Cedar Trees of Lebanon
By Max Sano || Staff Writer Climate change and lack of resources has fueled the unprecedented forest fires in Lebanon the past two years and have spread to Israel and…
Spotlight on Lancaster Climate Activist
By Max Sano || Contributing Writer James Sandoe and Max Sano tabling for Citizens’ Climate Lobby Lancaster last summer at the Peace Festival at Binns Park in Lancaster City. Over…
Impact of Hurricane Laura
By You (Elena) Wu || Contributing Writer Hurricane Laura came ashore around 2:00 AM EDT on August 27 near Cameron, Louisiana as a Category 4 hurricane. It made its landfall…
Takes global pandemic to realize palpable human impact on Climate Change: why everyone needs to vote, Op-Ed
By Alex Pinsk || Editor-in-Chief As stay-at-home orders become more stringent, so do travel bans, limitations on social gatherings, and the policies surrounding how exactly major corporations and organizations operate…
Student Describes Current Food Waste Crisis in the United States
By Olivia Capasso || Junior Editor Photo Courtesy of food navigator.com According to The Atlantic, each year Americans collectively dispose of an astonishing 60 million tons of produce, making fruits…
Delhi, India faces massive public health crisis due to poor air quality
By Anna Synakh || Copy Editor In the past week the air pollution in multiple cities in India reached record breaking levels. The smog has taken over large areas of…
Jerry Taylor discusses his altered view on Climate Change at Common Hour
By Amanda Leonard || Copy Editor Jerry Taylor’s Common Hour talk on November 8th illustrated that deeply-rooted and seemingly eternal values can change. Taylor spent most of his life firmly…
The Onion Dip: Lack of snow this season frustrates local global warming denier
By Kyle Huntzberry || Satirical Columnist LANCASTER, PA— Herbie Henderson, a local Trump supporter and climate change skeptic, has been extremely disappointed with the lack of snowfall in Lancaster this…