Giving Compass' Take:

• This article discusses the effects of climate change in the Midwest and how the way these cities live and manage their resources has to change to adapt.  

• What steps are cities taking to adapt? How can we gather more support for stopping the detrimental effects of climate change? 

• Here's an article on Midwest Flooding 2019, and how donors can help. 

Think of a Minnesota with almost no ice fishing. A Missouri that is as hot and dry as Texas. River and lake communities where catastrophic flooding happens almost every year, rather than every few generations.

This, scientists warn, is the future of the Midwest if emissions continue at a high rate, and it threatens the very core of the region's identity.

With extreme heat waves and flooding increasingly making that future feel more real, city leaders have started looking for ways to adapt.

This may be the moment that the resilience and problem-solving nature of many Midwesterners can shine, says Ashlynn Stillwell, an engineering professor at the University of Illinois whose research focuses on the intersection of water and energy policy.

"We Midwesterners are more doers than talkers, and so protesting and talking about something is honestly annoying compared to doing something about it," she said.

In "Unfamiliar Ground," a joint project organized by InsideClimate News, reporters across the Midwest are exploring what communities are doing to respond to climate change, with stories from Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Missouri, and this one from Minnesota.

Read the full article about adapting to climate change in the Midwest by Dan Gearino at Inside Climate News.