The ubiquitous plastic beverage bottle makes up about half of plastic waste collected for recycling in the U.S. Most recycled ...

Across the state, University of Illinois Extension staff link their communities with resources they need to thrive by turning ...

Gardening enthusiasts and beginners alike are invited to the sixteenth-annual Spring Into Gardening Conference. This year's ...

Food insecurity continues to be a major issue in the United States, and the recent lapse in SNAP benefits has worsened struggles for many families ...

COLLINSVILLE, Ill. — Natural resource professionals play a key role in protecting our communities’ environmental assets. With ongoing research and changing conditions, it’s increasingly important to ...

Tree care isn't always led just by certified arborists, so University of Illinois Extension is ensuring that everyone has ...

A sad fact of life is that sometimes a tree must be cut down. Some trees are beset by invasive insects or disease, others may be mangled by storms, and some die from environmental stress or old age.

This blog is the second part of a two-part series analyzing the 2025 Farmland Values Report published by the Illinois Society of Professional Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers (ISPFMRA). The report ...

Overgrazing is the failure to match animal grazing to forage growth and production. Overgrazing occurs when animals are allowed to continuously harvest a plant without allowing the plant to feed ...

We’re nearing that time of year when we’ll start to get warnings about the potential for a frost or freeze taking place. Is there really a difference between the two? Frosts can occur even when a ...

During this first week of October, many of the plants blooming in our landscape are mums, asters, goldenrods, sedums, and ornamental grasses. But what if your lilac is blooming? A lilac blooming in ...

Can you hear them? Probably not yet, but soon, Illinois will be awash in the songs of periodical cicadas. This year (2024) is a big year for periodical cicadas in Illinois, where Broods XIII and XIX ...