A summer’s day on Brad Ohrt’s farm in Reinbeck, Iowa is something out of a picture book: Cotton-candy clouds skate across the sky; endless rows of corn wave in the wind; the creek ripples in […]
This year’s El Niño is shaping up to be the strongest ever recorded, increasing the odds of never-before-seen weather extremes around the world. El Niño can increase the odds of supercharged storms in some places, […]
Rain gardening 101: Brighten your yard & keep waterways clean The 80,000 acres of prairie that once flourished across St. Louis, Missouri are all but gone today — replaced by roads, buildings and lawns. And […]
When Jim Resh retired from the USDA’s conservation department in 2017, he moved with his wife to a 4,000 square-foot Victorian home in the heart of Indiana, Pennsylvania, a town of 14,000. The beautiful old […]