climate change

A local community organization is ramping up a fundraising campaign to open a non-profit grocery store in a Cedar Rapids neighborhood that was hard-hit by the flood in 2008. The development is part of the group's larger efforts to bring more life, activity and investment in the neighborhood.

Host Ben Kieffer and his guests explain the science of carbon markets.

A University of Iowa report links climate change with the record flooding of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers that waterlogged Iowa in the spring of 2019.

Natural gas utilities face a bleak future in a world increasingly concerned about climate change. An NPR investigation shows how they work to block local climate action and protect their business.

Six months after the derecho carved a path of devastation across Iowa, the city of Cedar Rapids is moving forward with a reforestation plan. The city estimates that some 70 percent of the public tree canopy has been lost since the storm.

Short conversations about the big news stories for this week.

Environmental health scientist Peter Thorne of the University of Iowa joins Ben Kieffer. Thorne is a former chair of the EPA’s Science Advisory Board.

The city of Des Moines has set new climate goals to cut greenhouse gas emissions and to use only carbon-free electricity.

A conversation with two Iowans who fought wildfires in several western states this year.

Farmers need technology, but the challenges of climate change are greater than what innovation is likely to overcome.