Tennessee State Climatologist Dr. Andrew Joyner of Eastern Tennessee State University said the events will grow more frequent and more intense in the ...

On the Kentucky-Virginia border, one group is helping Indigenous people reconnect with the practice of seed saving on ancestral land. Welcome to Living Traditions, a podcast about folk and traditional ...

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Compared to urban residents, more people in rural areas engage in the informal economy, like home repair and subsistence food production, among other things, according to rural sociologists.

Introduction In 2016, I proposed in the Daily Yonder an Appalachian Homestead Act—a plan to redistribute land from bankrupt coal companies and absentee ...

This story was originally published by The Conversation. Drive through the plains of Iowa or Kansas and you’ll see more than ...

The Waldesians, a European Christian religious group, founded in France, faced persecution from the Catholic Church as far ...

This summer's crop of rural TV shows, including The Waterfront and Motorheads, bring family drama and teenage dreams to your ...

Ranches and pecan orchards along the banks of the San Saba River, stretched across the rolling landscape of Texas Hill Country, are working to recover ...

A coalition of nonprofits, tribes, and local governments is suing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over the ...

David Roediger is a historian of race and class in the United States, and a professor of American Studies at the University of Kansas. He’s the author of ...

This story was originally published by The Conversation. Drive through the plains of Iowa or Kansas and you’ll see more than rows of corn, wheat and soybeans. You’ll also see towering wind turbines ...