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The Daily Galaxy
Gold mining is poisoning the Amazon
Researchers found that mercury levels were highest in trees closest to mining operations, particularly near mining towns where mercury burning occurs most frequently. Environmental researcher Luis Fernandez said, “You can start to go back and see: how did it change when the mining came?” The team observed a noticeable rise in mercury levels in trees near mining areas after 2005.
April 13, 2025
WTOP-FM (Washington, DC)
How will Trump’s tariffs affect homebuyers?
Builders will face significant financial pressure to pass the higher costs on to consumers, according to business professor Pelin Pekgun. Some homebuilders may feel they have to scale back or delay projects if critical materials become too expensive or scarce. That, Pekgun says, could result “in slower construction and fewer homes on the market. Limited supply could then push prices even higher, intensifying affordability challenges.”
April 13, 2025
WFMY-TV (Greensboro, NC)
A Triad beauty supply is facing tariff impacts
"In some instances there will not be an alternative way in the near future. This means that the decision maker or the entrepreneur has to either decide if they are not going to produce that product anymore," said economics professo Todd McFall. "It might mean they shutter the business, or they have to raise prices on the product and try and weather the storm until they find an alternative." McFall said these circumstances speak to the benefit of free world trade.
April 11, 2025
Associated Press
Beijing ups diplomatic pressure on Africa as the US pulls back
Chinese diplomats threatened to cancel a summit and called top officials in two African countries to pressure lawmakers to quit an international parliamentary group critical of China. It’s an example of how far China will go to influence politicians overseas, and how that pressure can succeed behind closed doors. Politics and international affairs professor Lina Benabdallah, who studies China’s relations with Africa, said she has never heard of China using direct coercion against African parliamentarians before. “This is very new to me,” she said.
April 9, 2025
U.S. News and World Report
Decide between a full-time and part-time MBA
"I don’t know if one outweighs the other," said Kevin Bender, executive director for MBA enrollment management and recruiting at Wake Forest. "Full-time is for a less-experienced student, maybe two to five years out of undergrad. The part-time program is more for people 10 years out, maybe a little more senior."
April 9, 2025
WXII-TV (Winston Salem, NC)
NC Phil Berger and Sam Page prepare for ‘heavyweight contest’ in 2026 primary
"Phil Berger upset a lot of people with his stance on and his approach to getting casinos through two years ago. The longer that we go away from that, the more that Berger makes clear that he is not supporting casinos moving forward anymore, the more that we get back to the normal state of things, which is — Phil Berger is the leader of the senate and is perhaps the most important person in North Carolina politics. To defeat someone like that in their own primary is an uphill battle," said politics professor John Dinan.
April 9, 2025
Winston-Salem Journal
John Legend had the feeling he would be a star some day
John Legend had every intention of being a star and an instrument for change. You have to believe in what you have to offer to the world," John Legend told the sellout crowd at Joel Coliseum. "You have to believe that there's something special about it, something different, something new about it, and that it's going to be special." Photo gallery at the Winston-Salem Journal. Listen to the Wake Forest University Choir sing "All of Me."
April 9, 2025
Bloomberg Tax
Plastic pollution rules stall amid federal efforts boosting oil
"No product is more useful—and troubling—than plastic. From construction, transportation, fashion, food and medicine, plastic is used in almost every industry and in products from cars and phones to cosmetics and clothing. Given the goals of the Trump administration, the collapse of treaty talks, and the slow progress by companies, solutions to plastic pollution will be generated at the local and state levels, both through the legislatures and courts," writes law professor Sarah Morath.
April 8, 2025
Mongabay
Tree rings reveal mercury pollution from illegal gold mining
New research has found that some tropical trees in the Peruvian Amazon can be used to monitor mercury pollution from gold mining, offering an alternative to expensive air monitors. “The takeaway is that now we have a way to monitor Hg [mercury] in the air anywhere in the world, making a problem that was difficult and expensive cheap and accessible,” said biology professor Miles Silman, who wasn’t involved in the study.
April 8, 2025
Winston-Salem Journal
Cynthia Erivo, Mitt Romney, Magic Johnson highlight next season of ‘Face to Face’ series
"Wicked" star Cynthia Erivo, NBA legend Earvin "Magic" Johnson and former Utah senator and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney will headline the fifth season of Wake Forest University's "Face to Face" series. Also on the schedule for the next season is retired Army Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster. Romney, who will speak at Wait Chapel on the Wake Forest campus on Nov. 6, served as a senator from Utah from 2019 to 2025.
April 8, 2025
The Charlotte Observer
Trump, Musk DOGE cuts to EPA clean air grants worry Charlotte communities
“These are cuts that are going to have the potential to really adversely affect the health and welfare of people throughout the Charlotte metropolitan area,” said Stan Meiburg, executive director of Wake Forest's Sabin Family Center. “And in a time when environmental quality is so important to everyone, I think regardless of the party, it’s a real concern.” Charlotte is close to not attaining ozone air quality standards, Meiburg added.
April 7, 2025
WGHP-TV (High Point, NC)
Triad professors make the case for getting rid of pennies
What if someone offers a penny for your thoughts … but there aren’t any pennies to provide? “If we got rid of the penny, it would save the taxpayer not an immense amount of money but we’re talking $100 million, a couple hundred million,” said economics professor Robert Whaples. ”But the savings add up, so you keep doing this year over year, and it’s good for the government to do things as efficiently as possible and this is clearly an inefficient thing.”
April 3, 2025