For decades, farmers across America have been encouraged by the federal government to spread municipal sewage as fertilizer on millions of acres of farmland. It’s rich in nutrients and helps keep sludge out of landfills. But a growing body of research suggests that this black sludge, formed from sewage runoff from homes and factories, may… Read More »
Read in Spanish. Southeast Michigan seemed like a perfect “climate paradise.” “My family has owned my house since the ’60s. … Even when my father was a kid and lived there, there was no flood, flood, flood, flood. Until [2021]“A Southeast Michigan resident told us that June, a storm dumped more than 6 inches of… Read More »
Four poultry workers in Colorado recently contracted bird flu, bringing the total number of human cases in the U.S. to at least nine. While that number is small, disease researchers say the commonalities among cases, which have been reported almost entirely in the last four months, are enough to give a general picture of how… Read More »