Chris Bentley

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.

The North American prairie rivals the Amazon rainforest in its biological diversity, and it’s disappearing even faster.

Plastic pollution is a growing problem on our beaches, including the Great Lakes.

The new network of pipes has already intercepted 6.8 million tons of sewage and runoff that might otherwise have spilled into the Thames River.

This year, Chicago breaks ground on a pipeline that will bring water from the Great Lakes to some suburbs whose groundwater is running dry. 

Chicago’s Jane Addams Homes exemplified the rise and fall of public housing in the 20th century, from their construction under the New Deal in 1938 to their eventual demolition in the 2000s.

To Dave Sheffield, the dumpsters of Western New York are like old friends — reliable, generous and still capable of surprising him sometimes.

Fashion trends die quickly, but old clothes can live for years. Nearly every garment eventually winds up burned for fuel or tossed in a dump.

The four-legged robot is part of a pilot project that Orange County Waste & Recycling has been testing to help it find the planet-warming gas leaks that are common at landfills worldwide.

Rather than the deserts of the American West, French's latest series is set in western Ireland.

Offshore wind energy is a major source of power in China, the UK and Germany, but there are only 19 turbines spinning off American shores. But three more projects under construction are on track to greatly expand U.S. offshore wind capacity.

West Virginians look to find a place for solar power in coal country

Ten years after his celebrated “Southern Reach” trilogy, novelist Jeff VanderMeer is out with a surprise prequel.

The Democratic National Convention is over, and now delegates head back to their home states to build support for the party's nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris.

Many people moved to Taos in the 1970s to break free from modern architectural conventions. Today, that tradition continues, with architects and builders pioneering the latest green building trends.

Short Run presents Here & Now’s climate series “Reverse Course”. Today’s episode is about how the trucking industry is responsible for almost a quarter of all American greenhouse gas emissions in the transportation sector. But roadblocks remain to going green.

The trucking industry is responsible for almost a quarter of all American greenhouse gas emissions in the transportation sector. But roadblocks remain to going green.