Buffalo Breeze

09/20/2020

A number of companies and individuals renting homes to predominantly impoverished Black communities are being sued for using lead paint in those homes.

11/15/2019

3 ways cities can prepare for climate emergencies

Cities are on the front line of climate change. While their footprints cover a mere two per cent of the Earth’s surface, they consume 78 per cent of

11/09/2019

Three US Students charged for plotting to attack school

Three middle school students in western New York on Friday have been charged with allegedly plotting an attack on students and staff at their school after polic

10/26/2019

We mapped how food gets from farms to your home

My team at the University of Illinois just developed the first high-resolution map of the U.S. food supply chain. Our map is a comprehensive snapsho

10/20/2019

Rejuvenation of century-old De Angelis Carousel in Buffalo starts

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Friday announced the Erie Canal Harbor Development Corporation has begun construction on the Buffalo Heritage Carousel project.

10/17/2019

Great Lakes flooding: The warning signs that homes must be moved

Every fall, I take my environmental studies class camping at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore on Lake Michigan. Some years the beach extends mor

08/30/2019

A new solution for America's empty churches: A change of faith

Over the past few decades, vacant and underutilized churches have become a familiar sight in American cities. In some cases, a congregation or a reli

08/12/2019

WATCH | Fire at Pennsylvania child care centre kills five

A child care centre in Pennsylvania where children could stay overnight as their parents worked has been ravaged by a fire that killed five and s

08/12/2019

5 children killed in fire at Pennsylvania daycare facility

At least five children, including four siblings, were killed in a fire that broke out at a daycare facility in Pennsylvania on Sunday (local time).