By: Stormy Canning Smith In the Spring of 1945, three young men worked tirelessly, planting by hand one hundred and ten thousand wheat seeds across dozens of acres of farmland in Mexico’s Northern Yaqui Valley. 1 Among them was Norman E. Borlaug. An American agronomist, graduate of the College of Agriculture and former member of the United States Forest Service, Borlaug had moved south to Mexico from his home in the rural Midwest earlier that year. 2 He had been hired by the

By: Stormy Canning-Smith The Industrial Revolution is often cited as a decisive starting point of the Anthropocene–an epoch defined by the impact of humans as a dominant force shaping the natural environment. The Industrial Revolution created a massive surge in fossil fuel use, migration and urbanization, mechanized and mass production, and other exploitative methods of resource extraction, all of which marked a shift in human impact on the planet, and our relationship to the

This painting was created to show the impact of pollution on sea life. A turtle, bright and innocent, drifts toward a field of glowing...

By: Grace Xie Climate change has become increasingly hotly debated on the global stage. While some countries are shifting towards an...