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Milwaukee residents are determined to create a climate-resilient community.

The research community is reacting with alarm and anger to the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH’s) abrupt and unusual termination of a grant supporting research in China on how coronaviruses—such as the one causing the current pandemic—move from bats to humans.

Conservationists and environmentalists are battling over energy development along the Great Lakes.

The NIH announced a $1.5 billion initiative to speed breakthroughs in diagnostic tests for the virus that causes COVID-19.

A Philadelphia teacher worries about her students as they face extraordinary challenges during COVID-19.

A candidate treatment for COVID-19 has shown convincing—albeit modest—benefit for the first time.

Rebuilding Chicago’s iconic lakefront, managing Buffalo’s rainwater and sewage, and tracking the annual algal blooms in Lake Erie are all part of the Great Lakes region’s effort to manage the impacts of climate change. This month, Great Lakes Now takes you to meet the citizens, city leaders and scientists who are working on these issues.

After a year many fishermen called the worst in their careers, the Bonnet Carré Spillway opened again in 2020. Mississippi Today's series looks at what climate change means for the Coast's fisheries.

Despite a half-century of advances, in many ways, Great Lakes water quality is back to where it was in 1970, but with the added influence of a rapidly changing climate.

Among the many surprises of the new coronavirus is one that seems to defy basic biology: infected patients with extraordinarily low blood-oxygen levels, or hypoxia, scrolling on their phones, chatting with doctors, and generally describing themselves as comfortable. Clinicians call them happy hypoxics.

Add the looming threat of a pandemic to a toxic stew of disadvantages in St. Louis communities.

For decades since the 1970s, the Duluth-Superior port has been a juggernaut of coal, shipping it primarily around the Great Lakes region. But as energy use in the Great Lakes changes, so does the port.