7 States Where Water Conservation Is Becoming Part of Daily Life
Water used to be one of those things nobody thought much about. Turn the tap, fill the glass, water the ...
Economists Ranked Every State by Climate-Driven Cost of Living – This One Came in Dead Last
Every year the math behind the American cost of living gets a little more complicated. It used to be enough ...
I Asked ChatGPT Which Regions Will See the Worst Wildfire Smoke This Year – Here’s What It Predicted
Curiosity got the better of me one smoky afternoon in late July, watching yet another air quality alert pop up ...
Meet the Fastest-Cooling City in America: The Place Nobody Saw Coming
For years, the story of the American housing market had a familiar shape. Prices climbed, buyers competed, and a handful ...
7 Signs Your City Is About to Face Water Restrictions, According to Utility Officials
Most people don’t think about their water supply until the sprinklers stop working on the usual schedule. By then, the ...
I Asked 3 Urban Planners Which Cities Will Boom by 2040 – Their Answers Didn’t Match
I spent a few weeks talking to three urban planners about where American growth is actually headed over the next ...
How the Great Lakes Have Changed in the Last 30 Years, in 8 Numbers
From the shoreline, Lake Michigan looks about the same as it did in the mid 1990s: vast, gray blue, seemingly ...
The 5-Point Checklist Geologists Use to Decide If a City Sits on Dangerous Ground
Most people who live in a city never think about what’s underneath the pavement. They worry about traffic, rent, maybe ...
We Traced Where America’s Drought Risk Is Actually Growing – It Wasn’t the Region You’d Expect
Ask most people where drought is worst in the United States and they’ll point west, toward the cracked reservoirs of ...
Meet the New Tornado Hotspot: The Region Nobody Saw Coming
For most of the last century, Americans knew exactly where to look when tornado season rolled around. You pictured Oklahoma, ...