As Hannah Hernandez boarded her plane back to Rhode Island in January, and flew away from a charred Los Angeles County, she described the feeling in one word: guilt. “There’s some girls that I know that have to stay back, because literally everything is gone, they won’t ever get to go back home [to their…
Protesters stood at Kennedy Plaza in Providence on Saturday for an emergency rally to oppose Elon Musk’s new roles in the federal government and demand that Rhode Island senators stand up against his actions. Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency is a revamped department put in place under President Barack Obama, previously named the “United States…
Over 100 people rallied at the steps of the Rhode Island State House on President Donald Trump’s inauguration day, standing in support of climate advocacy and environmental justice. University of Rhode Island students attended the Jan. 20 demonstration and held up signs that read: “URI students for climate” and “future environmental scientists against Trump.” Student…
The Reykjanes Peninsula in Iceland experienced a new rifting event due to the movement of the North American and Eurasian tectonic plates. Haraldur Sigurdsson, emeritus professor of oceanography and Iceland native, spoke about Iceland’s volcanic events in a lecture on Friday in the Corless Auditorium on the University of Rhode Island Bay Campus. The Fagradalsfjall…
Hurricane Lee narrowly missed the coast of New England over the weekend as it fizzled into a post-tropical cyclone and eventually died in the Gulf of Maine. According to MyRadar, an international meteorological firm, Lee peaked as a Category 5 hurricane, the highest grade of hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson hurricane wind scale, before slowly growing…
Recent train derailments in Ohio released harmful chemicals into the environment raised discussion on railroad safety.PHOTO CREDIT: Socialistalternative.org Graphic by: Liz Fusco | News Editor No one was reported injured and no immediate environmental threats were detected when a Norfolk Southern train derailed on March 4 in Springfield, Ohio. This comes just one month after…
Picture from the candlelight vigil for earthquakes in Turkey and Syria. PHOTO CREDIT: Eddie Melfi | Staff Photographer In a matter of minutes, the earthquakes that hit southern Turkey and northern Syria on Feb. 6 created a humanitarian crisis with both physical and political impacts. The 7.8 magnitude earthquake killed tens of thousands of people,…
New artificial intelligence program raises questions in academic integrity and ethics. Graphic by: Maddie Bataille | Photo Editor ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence software created by a company called OpenAI, has been making headlines nationally for its ability to generate text similar to the way that humans generate language. This has been raising a lot of…
Serious talk about climate change arises after an iceberg the size of London broke off in the arctic. PHOTO CREDIT: CNN An iceberg roughly the size of London broke off of Antarctica due to warming air temperatures and early ice melt, according to a CNN article. The break occurred on Sunday, Jan. 22, following years…
How can we define the First Amendment in the age of social media? PHOTO CREDIT: Maddie Bataille | Photo Editor Twitter has played a prominent role in how people digest media. In the past, Twitter has banned people who “abused” the platform to spread hate or misinformation. In October of this year, billionaire Elon Musk…