Commentary and Analysis

Gloria Dabek and Alyssa Kreps examine how integrating a climate lens into foreign policy and national security will have ripple effects on both domestic and global food security.

Alaina Harkness discusses the water infrastructure of the midwest.

Water flows between farms and cities and changes form as each person uses and reuses it.

The 54-percentage-point gap between Democrat and Republican views on climate change is the largest in the 2020 Chicago Council Survey.

From technocracy to critical pragmatism in the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Smart water management (SWM) brings technological sophistication to water governance by providing monitoring, operational, and communications capacities through real-time information.

Better water management is crucial to global food and nutrition security.

Humans all need water for roughly the same things and in roughly the same amounts. And yet, water insecurity has profoundly disproportionate effects on women.

Seriously addressing the region’s plastic apocalypse will require moving beyond blunt moves such as plastic bag bans.

Many have come to term the generational divide around climate change beliefs the "global warming age gap"—and many more are deeply concerned about its implications for climate change policy.