adrianaperez.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

Federal protection for nearly 50 years has helped gray wolf populations steadily recover. But in the past 20 years, conservationists, hunters, ranchers and politicians have used different definitions of recovery to repeatedly shift the gray wolf on and off the endangered list.

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

Some groups want federal protection for Great Lakes gray wolves dropped as role of Endangered Species Act examined. A really interesting story as always from excellent beat reporter @adrianaperez.bsky.social www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/09/s...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

As he learns to communicate with chirps, whistles and squeals, the Shedd Aquarium’s first baby beluga in over four years now has a name that sings: Opus.

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

"What I’ve been hearing is that, regardless of the intention, to make government smaller or to streamline positions — whatever the intention is, the impact does not match," -NPCA's Crystal Davis to @adrianaperez.bsky.social www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/01/n...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Former Indiana Dunes park employee Eric Anderson was among the 1,000 probationary park service staff members terminated as President Donald Trump’s administration freezes funding and slashes personnel across federal agencies.

submitted 7 days ago • 8 comments

Emilie Harvey found her dream job as an educator with the US Forest Service at Midewin Nat'l Tallgrass Prairie. Then she was fired alongside the other three people in her unit. "I’m not a crier. I cried a lot. All of us did ... It was such a blow to have that ripped away from me for no reason."

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

A few hours before celebrating Valentine’s Day with his wife, Eric Anderson was fired from his job managing wildfires & restoring ecosystems at Indiana Dunes National Park. Adrenaline rushed to his head as he scanned the letter. "I couldn’t really read much further." @chicagotribune.com gift link:

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

When a ranger at Pullman National Historical Park was fired, a field trip for Naperville North High School students was canceled. "If I think about what makes America great, it’s having a National Park Service that offers outreach opportunities," their teacher said. @chicagotribune.com gift link:

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

“When Ukraine is under attack, all of us are under attack.” www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/02/c... by my colleague @adrianaperez.bsky.social

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Midwest communities worry that firing of parks and forest employees will harm ecosystems, economies and education. Story by @adrianaperez.bsky.social on the unfolding Trump administration www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/01/n...

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

Pritzker delays start of invasive carp project at Brandon Road in Joliet amid federal funding concerns. Story by @adrianaperez.bsky.social www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/10/i...

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

"We cannot move forward until the Trump Administration provides more certainty and clarity on whether they will follow the law and deliver infrastructure funds we were promised,” @govpritzker.illinois.gov says abt project intended to keep invasive carp out of Great Lakes. @adrianaperez.bsky.social

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

“Any delay or halt of construction of this project threatens the economy and environment,” said Joel Brammeier, president and CEO of the Alliance for the Great Lakes, "and opens the door to yet another invasive species to do irreversible damage to Great Lakes and to the people who call it home.”

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Anticipating a lack of federal funding under the new presidential administration, Illinois has postponed construction in a long-awaited $1.15 billion project to stop the movement of invasive carp up Illinois waterways and into Lake Michigan.

submitted 27 days ago • 4 comments

Today, Gov Pritzker announced Illinois is postponing construction of a long-awaited project to stop the movement of invasive carp upstream into the Great Lakes, with the Illinois DNR anticipating a lack of federal funding as the Trump admin. withholds $117 million in grants. For @chicagotribune.com:

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

In 2023, O’Hare International Airport and its screaming jet engines were Chicago’s biggest single source of carbon dioxide, accounting for one-tenth of the city’s total.

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

Trump purged dozens of career officials in the EPA's Chicago office during his first term. His latest attempt to cull the workforce is led by billionaire Elon Musk, whose companies Tesla and SpaceX have been fined by the EPA for multiple violations of environmental laws.

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

As immigrant communities across Chicagoland entered a third week of fear and uncertainty in the shadow of President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, some business owners and workers from Elgin to Chicago Heights took action Monday: They closed their businesses and stayed home from work.

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

The Cook County Department of Environment and Sustainability has asked for public input to address gaps in community investment and support those historically overburdened by pollution and severe weather.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Since Friday, reports have come in of over 100 dead birds along the lakefront and scattered as far inland as a mall in Skokie.

submitted 35 days ago • 3 comments

When she took her dog out to Oak St Beach on their morning walk Sunday, Portia Belloc Lowndes came across a scene so disturbing it felt “like a horror show.” Around 20 dead birds — mostly common and red-breasted mergansers — lay belly-up on the shore. Experts suspect it’s the bird flu.

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

Chicagoans and advocates for undocumented immigrants reported at least a half-dozen ICE sightings across the city and suburbs Sunday.

submitted 42 days ago • 5 comments

In its quest to get a million electric vehicles on the road by 2030, Illinois was counting on $148 million in federal funding to help build a statewide network of public EV chargers. Now that funding has been frozen.

submitted 42 days ago • 6 comments

In a letter filed in federal court, the Illinois EPA said the proposed expansion of a toxic waste dump on the Southeast Side would go against state law. It’s the latest development in a lengthy battle over the future of a 45-acre disposal site on the Lake Michigan shoreline.

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment

Teens charged with shooting coyote with bow, stomping animal to death in Mt. Greenwood neighborhood earlier this month, @ckubzansky.bsky.social reports for @chicagotribune.com:

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

Insurance rate hikes in Illinois and other states are being driven by the increasing prevalence of extreme weather events. From @robertchannick.bsky.social

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

In 2024, Illinois was affected by the most billion-dollar climate disasters in the state since recordkeeping began in 1980, making it the fourth-costliest year. 12 events that touched multiple states cost Illinois nearly $4 billion in damages — 9 were severe storms w/ tornadoes, hail & high winds.

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

This summer, the Brookfield Zoo’s bottlenose dolphin habitat will reverberate with the talkative chatty whistles and playful leaps of a new calf — the first expected to be born there in over a decade.

submitted 54 days ago • 2 comments

🚨 good news hump day!! 🐬 Brookfield Zoo's 37-year-old bottlenose dolphin Allie is pregnant and set to give birth this summer! This would be the zoo's first dolphin calf in 10+ years. More for @chicagotribune.com — here's a gift link: www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/15/b...

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

Those of us of a certain age remember Animal Stories when WLS radio was a classic rock station. Great read from @adrianaperez.bsky.social

submitted 54 days ago • 1 comment

My favorite coworker (don’t tell the others!)

submitted 54 days ago • 1 comment

Farmers who use sewage sludge as fertilizer and their neighbors face higher risks of cancer and other diseases, according to a new federal analysis that pins the blame on toxic forever chemicals.

submitted 55 days ago • 7 comments

Wielding brooms, two Chicago police officers can be seen in a video shared to social media trying to get a mysterious animal out from behind a refrigerated section in an Aldi grocery store Monday. It turned out to be a coyote.

submitted 55 days ago • 7 comments

Chicago, you’ve heard of coyote in a Quiznos — get ready for coyote in an Aldi. A male adult was found hiding in the grocery store’s refrigerated section, and later rescued safely. He is waiting to be transferred to a rehab center for a full exam. @chicagotribune.com gift link:

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

I forgot a group of crows is called a murder… and that I’m in a birding group on Google. This email subject line stopped me dead in my tracks

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

At the Urban Growers Collective’s 8-acre farm in South Chicago, Nigerian pygmy goats chomp, munch and strip the branches of real former Christmas trees that have been dropped off.

submitted 59 days ago • 5 comments

Global temperatures in 2024 soared to yet another record level, but this time it was such a big jump that Earth temporarily passed a major symbolic climate threshold.

submitted 58 days ago • 4 comments

Communities in Illinois will receive a portion of $12 billion in federal disaster recovery funds for severe storms and flooding over the last two years, including $426 million for Chicago, $244 million for Cook County, $96 million for the town of Cicero and $89 million for St. Clair County.

submitted 60 days ago • 2 comments

For more than 40 years, migrating birds have been crashing into McCormick Place Lakeside Center. But this fall, when bird collision monitors performed their usual daily searches of the building’s grounds, they found something remarkable: just 18 dead birds.

submitted 60 days ago • 4 comments

The bald eagle, which became the country’s national bird on Christmas Eve, no longer avoids Chicago.

submitted 66 days ago • 2 comments

One paddle at a time, volunteer guides forge bonds to Chicago River’s rich history and ecology, by @adrianaperez.bsky.social www.chicagotribune.com/2024/12/31/o...

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

“Oftentimes, when they come to the doctor, they get nervous. So, it’s weird, but they do better when you hold their hand." - @adrianaperez.bsky.social, on doctors' appointments for turtles suffering from fungal infections. Photos by Jason Wambsgans www.chicagotribune.com/2024/12/30/i...

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

Videos shared on social media showed a crane bring down a wall, causing white granular material to spill into the river and bring protective netting down with it. As it hit the water’s surface, the debris produced a dusty cloud and then settled, floating on the river as cranes ground to a halt.

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

Debris from the Tribune's Freedom Center demolition fell into the river near the Bally’s casino site over the weekend - most was cleaned up, but bits of the construction material made their way upstream. For @chicagotribune.com:

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

Climate change: Lake Michigan experiences warmest November in 30 years as climate change heats up the Great Lakes. By @adrianaperez.bsky.social www.chicagotribune.com/2024/12/16/l...

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

Great reporting from @adrianaperez.bsky.social “The Great Lakes are not an old ecosystem...but compared to how fast the impacts of climate change are moving, the Great Lakes might as well be ancient.”

submitted 84 days ago • 2 comments

Lake Michigan's average temperature has been abnormally high for this year, a condition mostly mirrored across the other Great Lakes. They are among the fastest-warming lakes in the world, a consequence of climate change that can have profound effects on the region. 📝 @adrianaperez.bsky.social

submitted 84 days ago • 3 comments

“How much usable space do beavers even have? And how do we live alongside wildlife?” That's what biologists in Chicago, the third-most populous U.S. city, aim to learn. 📝 @adrianaperez.bsky.social 📷 Eileen T. Meslar / @chicagotribune.com www.chicagotribune.com/2024/11/28/c...

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

Imperiled wetlands save the Midwest billions in flood damage costs, but they’re disappearing. 30 million acres of unprotected wetlands across the Upper Midwest, including 1 million in Illinois, are at risk of being destroyed largely by industrial agriculture. 📝 @adrianaperez.bsky.social

submitted 91 days ago • 2 comments