Aaron Gilbreath

Destructively lax water policies and capitalistic opportunism made desert Arizona ripe for agricultural exploitation. As the ancient aquifer drops in southern Arizona’s Sulphur Springs Valley, corporate farmers and local residents battle to reach what’s left, but when will the water run out?

Like everywhere in the US, malls in New Jersey are suffering the effects of online shopping and changing business models. Some are adding gyms, breweries and pop-up restaurants to bring back customers. The verdict is out if this will work.

JD.com is China’s second-largest e-commerce company. By using rural villages’ social networks to recruit new customers and employees, the company is capturing the country’s growing online retail market, improving Chinese life and possibly giving villagers an incentive not to leave for the city.

Restoring river floodplains to forest and wetland habitat is a proven method for reducing flood damage to towns and cities, because these habitats absorb floodwater. To ready itself for climate change, the state is beginning to revegetate some of its riverbanks in central rural California.

New Zealand and Australia have had a strong relationship, which included porous borders with each other. That relationship has eroded since Australia started deporting many Maori and Pacific Islanders based on “character” or criminal history.

When Lorena Bobbitt cut off her husband’s penis and threw it out her car window in 1993, she not only did what many woman want to do to abusive, deserving men, she became both a feminist icon and a tabloid caricature. Twenty-five years later, the couple still disagrees about what really happened, but the Bobbitt’s […]

Canada, the second largest nation in the world by area, is highly susceptible to the effects of climate change. According to nationwide assessments, the country is struggling to prepare itself.