A support group and a lab in the St. Louis area provide resources for people with the allergy to mammal products — and evidence that its effects can be reversed.
Growing crops & solar together in the skeptical Corn Belt Researchers look at how agrivoltaics could benefit farmers and be a salve to a growing strain over solar land use in the rural communities. By our journalists at Indianapolis Star , The Gazette and The Lens . Also in Energy News Network .
Our team is hard at work reporting our first big project. It's a series, coming in October, about how rainfall is increasing in the basin and how that's impacting our lives, our communities, and our economies.
We’ve got reporters scaling levees in Atchison, Missouri, interviewing elders in Freeport, Illinois, touring newly-relocated communities on the Kickapoo River in Wisconsin, talking with farmers in rural Minnesota, interviewing tribal members in Indiana, and crunching data from the National Weather Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
What we’ve found is not surprising: Rainfall is increasing, and so is its intensity. This is forcing communities, towns and industries to adapt or relocate. We’ve learned that people love their communities, and they’re coming up with creative ways to grow, sustain and thrive on a changing planet.
We can’t wait to tell you more. Stay tuned.
--Tegan Wendland, editorial director
Our latest: Agrivoltaics
Growing crops & solar together in the skeptical Corn Belt Researchers look at how agrivoltaics could benefit farmers and be a salve to a growing strain over solar land use in the rural communities. By our journalists at Indianapolis Star, The Gazette and The Lens. Also in Energy News Network.
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