Susan Cosier, Author at Pacific Standard

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An Experiment in Sustainable Urban Agriculture

Once a Chicago meatpacking facility, The Plant now serves as an incubator for various food start-ups.

Taste the rainbow trout.

Eliminating the pollution from industry requires a lot of time, money, and effort on the part of local groups, states, and federal entities.

Thanks to the Flint water crisis, the city's kids could experience terrible, long-lasting consequences.

The Midwest’s warm and soggy winter weather.

Every week, barrels upon barrels of volatile crude oil crisscross Chicago by rail, endangering tens of thousands of kids.

Backyard breeders are creating a new kind of hero honeybee—one that chomps off the legs of mites and saves the hive.

Fecal samples have a lot to tell us about the mating game—and this zoo scientist is getting the scoop on how to save endangered species in the wild.

Toxic tap water is just not acceptable in 2015 (in Flint, Michigan, or anywhere else).

Thanks to falconers, endangered peregrines are flourishing in the Midwest.