Chris Bentley

Community-scale solar farms are booming in Illinois thanks to state incentives.

Even when it's freezing and covered in snow, Minnesota's Sax-Zim Bog attracts birders from around the world. They flock there hoping to spot owls, hawks and rare songbirds that spend most of their time in northern Canada.

The number of moose in Minnesota is about half what it was just 20 years ago.

The White House has promised to quadruple nuclear power by 2050. 

Virginia's climate law requires 100% renewable energy by 2050. The commonwealth is also known as the data center capital of the world. Can those ambitions coexist?

For the first time in 98 years, an organized swim has taken place in the Chicago River.

More Americans are seeking out grass-fed milk, dairy that comes from cows that get their nutrition grazing on grassland instead of living in confinement and eating grain-based feed.

Much of the Midwest was once a great swath of prairie and oak savanna before it was transformed by farms, patchy forests and small towns.

Here & Now's Chris Bentley and Peter O'Dowd spent a week reporting on the Mississippi River.

As climate change and development exacerbate the Mississippi River’s environmental problems, many communities will have to grapple with the questions facing Dogtooth Bend: how to balance the costs of maintaining America’s aging levee system against the pain of relocating communities and farmland.