When Stony Brook University decided to bulldoze the tallest conifer tree on campus in the 1960s, political science professor Dr. Ashley Schiff chained himself to its trunk, according to campus lore.
Last August, Rob DiGiovanni from the Atlantic Marine Conservation Society (AMCS) embarked on a boating trip to watch dolphins. Instead, he found a balloon floating in the ocean emblazoned, “Happy Father’s Day!” In the same 30-minute trip, he picked up seven pounds of garbage.
Bundled up to protect from the cold weather, six screaming preschool children ran outside to look for sticks to build a tower. “I found something!” a young girl’s voice cried out from a wooded area. She held a plastic fork…
There’s an invisible killer on Stony Brook University’s campus that claims up to a billion birds’ lives a year in the United States alone: windows.
After weeks of the government shutdown, the National Parks Service (NPS) announced today that they plan to transform several parks into landfills due to copious amounts of garbage and human feces.
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In Tanzania many women cannot afford to buy menstrual products. Students involved in Stony Brook’s study abroad program in Tanzania are combatting the issue by making and donating reusable menstrual pads.
It’s 9 a.m., and your first class starts at 10. Your phone alarm goes off, rousing you from your much-needed sleep. You roll over in bed and unplug your phone from its plastic phone charger. Still yawning, you get up,…
So many horrible things have gone down in America since Trump took office. One writer at the Press shared her Top Ten.