By Brian Mackey
The Illinois Senate has approved limits on how people let their dogs out. The legislation would specify the length cord owners could use tying their dogs up outside. Brian Mackey has more.
By Sean Powers
Veterinary technicians at the University of Illinois are in contract negotiations for the first time with the U of I over wages.
By Dan Charles
According to a new survey of America's beekeepers, almost a third of the country's honeybee colonies did not make it through the winter.
By Geoff Brumfiel
A smartphone can tell you where to get a cup of coffee, but it can't go get the coffee for you. Engineers would like to build little machines that can do stuff.
By Alastair Bland
Is salmon farming ever sustainable?
By Gerry Hadden, The World
As the spring pollination season approaches in Europe, there’s growing concern about the impact of a widely-used group of pesticides on bees–pesticides which are also used in the US.
By Daniel Hajek
Shrimp is the number one seafood product in the United States. While most shrimp is imported from Asia or Ecuador, some is being raised indoors in the Midwest. The challenge is to simulate an ocean environment in a barn or other structure.
By Lydia Zuraw
When we heard a few weeks ago that Illinois was considering banning lion meat, our first thought was, who's eating lion meat? And why Illinois?
By Christopher Joyce
A new study of Central African forest elephants has found their numbers down by 62 percent between 2002 and 2011. The study comes as governments and conservationists meet in Thailand to amend the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species.
By The Associated Press
A beetle that kills ash trees now has been found in 59 Indiana counties.
