Many cities in the United States are expanding and are incorporating areas that contain environments with which city fire department personnel are inexperienced. Expanding cities typically incorporate ...

As I look out the window of my Montana house, I can see for literally hundreds of miles. This is rural America at its best. It is a truly amazing place to live—a place where it is far more common to ...

Janet Simoneaux, 68, retired to Lake Como in rural Putnam County before a biosolids company announced plans to dump nearby.

Rural voters in the American West have a strong commitment to environmental protections and conservation, according to a new study led by researchers at the University of Wyoming, Duke University and ...

"There is a sentimentalism in America about 'the country' as a place to live," says Mr. Will W. Alexander in a report on rural housing. "Fresh air, the minds of many of our people—is particularly city ...

Children raised in rural environments who spend a lot of time outdoors with some exposure to animals grow to have better regulated immune systems than children living in urban environments, a new ...

The deep divide between rural and urban communities is a polarization that has been exemplified by coronavirus, climate change and economic despair. It is estimated that approximately 60 million ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Exposure to environmental factors early in life may impact immune system development. A better understanding of ...

Ready for the country: Nebraska farmers turned this 80-acre cornfield into a work of crop art to show their support for the Sierra Club’s Ready for 100 campaign. (Tom Simmons / Spectral Q for Bold ...

Child Welfare, Vol. 81, No. 5, SPECIAL ISSUE: The Crisis in Rural Child Welfare (September/October 2002), pp. 791-819 (29 pages) An "organization-in-environment" perspective can help researchers ...