Gruesome deaths among the homeless along the Chicago River trigger public fears of disease.  Talk of interning all Chicago homeless behind high walls at this location complicates rebuilding of a nearby historic neighborhood damaged by viol...

A small Iowa town on the upper Mississippi River struggles to find support from government when levees protecting the town start to collapse.  Yet upstream corporate landowners and grain depots expand and harden their levees with federal m...

An author predicting record rainfall that could collapse Houston’s economy draws unrelenting attacks from government and the business community.  No one is watching when another environmental threat becomes reality.

Homes on the North Carolina coast, abandoned due to damage from increasingly violent storms, has become a refuge for the destitute and homeless.  County Services and a State Senator stand in opposition to professional investors who would b...

Arizona is faced with rationing of fresh water.  Subdivisions are closing.  Farms are dying.  One family struggles to protect their 200 year old family farm by introducing solar panels over the angry objections of a subdivision h...