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Attendees eat and converse during the 2025 Annual John P. Wyatt, MD Environment and Health Symposium on Tuesday, April 22, 2025, at Gatton Student Center in Lexington, Kentucky. Photo by Sydney Novack | Staff

Environment and Health Symposium event calls for environmental activism

Ariana Contreras, Reporter April 29, 2025

The University of Kentucky’s Center for the Environment hosted the annual 2025  Environment and Health Symposium, an event featuring student exhibitors and a panel of professionals discussing environmental...

A Quest for Trash

Katherine Duckworth, Reporter May 22, 2023

While walking through the pine forest of Jacobson Park in November 2022, Cliff Jaggie, Liz Otto, and their 12-year-old beagle, Scrappy, noticed something concerning lurking among the trees . No matter...

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Earth Day: its history and message of hope

Cameron Luker April 22, 2020

Today marks the 50th Anniversary of a once radical and now beloved annual event: Earth Day. Unfortunately, this birthday for America’s modern environmental sensibility will likely be overshadowed by...

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How to help on Earth Day, and every other day

Kellsie Kennedy April 22, 2019

We, as Americans and people, applaud actions individuals take towards environmental sustainability. We congratulate recyclers and bicyclists, gardeners and organic shoppers. Practicing one or two of the...

UK theater performance brings light to climate change

Rebecca Watters April 22, 2016

features@kykernel.comUK’s Staging History class is celebrating Earth Day by bringing climate change front and center of the courtyard in the College of Fine Arts.A staged reading of the class’s original...

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