Messing with Our Beer Supply

Messing with Our Beer Supply

OK, climate change deniers. This has gone too far. You’ve gone from just being annoying know-nothings to now posing a serious threat to an essential good that embodies humankind’s finest collaboration with nature: beer. It’s one thing for the science...
Saving Our Blue Future

Saving Our Blue Future

Have you heard? The world is running out of accessible clean water. Humanity is polluting, mismanaging, and displacing our finite freshwater sources at an alarming rate. Since 1990, half the rivers in China have disappeared. The Ogallala Aquifer that supplies the U.S....
The Cold Truth Atlanta’s Epic Traffic Jam Exposed

The Cold Truth Atlanta’s Epic Traffic Jam Exposed

Communities around the country can learn a sobering lesson from the day Atlanta literally froze up. How Congress handles one of its biggest spending decisions will indicate whether our leaders got the message. Atlanta found itself scrambling in mid-February to avoid a...
This Is What Climate Change Looks Like

This Is What Climate Change Looks Like

“It’s been a bit cold here,” my dad told me on a recent phone call. He lives in Chicago; I’m in San Diego. The next time I turned on the news, I saw headlines screaming “Polar Vortex!” with sub-zero temperatures across the Midwest....
Wisconsin’s Cheesy Innovation

Wisconsin’s Cheesy Innovation

For generations, picture-takers have instructed their subjects to say “cheese.” Well, no people say “cheese” better than Wisconsinites, who unabashedly wear cheesehead hats in public, celebrate dozens of cheese festivals, have a Monterey Jack...