Tag: Rural America
Climate-friendly farming strategies can improve the land and generate income for...
Lisa Schulte Moore, Iowa State University
Agriculture has not been a central part of U.S. climate policy in the...
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...
EXPLORING NATURE
Quantum sensors use atoms, electrons and light as ultra‑steady rulers –...
Alex Krasnok, Florida International University
Quantum computers get a lot of attention, even though they are not ready for...
