Iowa’s rural future is brighter with solar energy
For decades Iowans have led the nation in innovating our way to a cleaner, more reliable power grid that promotes public health and economic prosperity...
Tackling Climate Change with a Collaborative Approach
The new administration’s first 100 days in office were marked by aggressive action on two fronts—the coronavirus pandemic and climate change. Addressing the latter, the...
South County Confronts Long-Standing Coastal Challenges
As increasingly frequent and intense storms batter the Ocean State’s weary coast, the consequences, such as eroding beaches, flooded homes, compromised public streets and threatened...
South Kingstown has Long History with Encroaching Waters
Jim Bedell, a retired high school geology and physics teacher, has spent much of the past two decades advocating for public access to the shore...
New Monroe County Project Aims To Reduce Impacts Of Climate Change, Make Conservation Profitable
The Monroe County Climate Readiness and Rural Economic Opportunity Assessment is an eight-month project led by the county’s Climate Change Task Force and advocacy group Wisconsin’s Green Fire.
Air pollution from farms leads to 17,900 U.S. deaths per year, study finds
The smell of hog feces was overwhelming, Elsie Herring said. The breezes that wafted from the hog farm next to her mother’s Duplin County, N.C.,...
Mineral constraints for transition overstated by IEA
The IEA looked into the amount of minerals needed to fuel the energy transition, and pretty quickly worked out ‘there is no shortage of resources’. ...
Silent calamity: The health impacts of wildfire smoke
Articles on U.S. wildfires don’t often show a photo of someone gasping in a hospital bed or felled by a heart attack. Yet an increasing...