Tag: Rural America
How 18 million Americans could move into rural areas – without...
Devon Brenner, Mississippi State University and Jesse Longhurst, Southern Oregon University
About 46 million Americans – 14% of the...
Voters aren’t the only ones who dread slow mail – struggling...
Ednilson Bernardes, West Virginia University
Thousands of baby chicks shipped to small poultry farmers through the U.S. Postal Service have arrived at their destinations dead...
Iowa’s farmers – and American eaters – need a national discussion...
Lisa Schulte Moore, Iowa State University
Iowa’s first-in-the-nation caucuses bring the state a lot of political attention during presidential election cycles. But in my view,...
The US drinking water supply is mostly safe, but that’s not...
Joan Rose, Michigan State University
Most Americans take clean drinking water for granted as a convenience of modern life. The United States has one of...
Populist alliances of ‘cowboys and Indians’ are protecting rural lands
Zoltan Grossman, Evergreen State College
The sea of red on recent election maps make it look like rural areas are uniformly populated by Republicans. And...
Most of America’s rural areas are doomed to decline
David Swenson, Iowa State University
Since the Great Recession, most of the nation’s rural counties have struggled to recover lost jobs and retain their people....
For a flooded Midwest, climate forecasts offer little comfort
Shuang-Ye Wu, University of Dayton
Flooding in the Midwest, triggered by an intense “bomb cyclone,” has devastated parts of the region, which has been plagued...
The Amish live simply, but don’t confuse them with environmentalists
David McConnell, The College of Wooster and Marilyn Loveless, The College of Wooster
In recent decades, many popular myths about the Amish – that they...
EXPLORING NATURE
Sea level doesn’t rise at the same rate everywhere – we...
Shaina Sadai, Five College Consortium and Ambarish Karmalkar, University of Rhode Island
When polar ice sheets melt, the effects...
