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The global combined land and ocean-surface temperature was 1.67 degrees Fahrenheit above the 20th-century average, according to NOAA, the hottest in 142 years of record-keeping.
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Found in wetlands from Missouri to Massachusetts, photoferrotrophs could be absorbing carbon dioxide on a large scale, underscoring the importance of conserving these threatened habitats, Washington University scientists say.
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You know you've thought about it before — whether or not you could survive a zombie outbreak. Well, according to a new study, Kansas City is one of the…
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A drive 30 minutes north of Omaha, Nebraska, leads to the Fort Calhoun nuclear power plant. It's full of new equipment. There's a white concrete box…
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Try to find a hotel room in St. Joseph, Missouri a year from now, and you might be disappointed. On August 21, 2017, tens of thousands of visitors will…
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A device that could improve homeland security, help the military and protect workers in nuclear facilities and hospitals has won a coveted award for a…
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The Mid-America Regional Council, or MARC, releases a Skycast each day with a forecast of ozone air quality. The third orange ozone alert in 2016 for the…
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Kansas City Power and Light has agreed to buy wind energy from two plants now under construction in northwest Missouri.NextEra Energy Resources is…
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UPDATED, 10:20 a.m.: A massive wildfire still rages in south-central Kansas, though authorities on the scene indicate much of the blaze is coming under…
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KC Water officials say a rigorous testing protocol should keep what happened in Flint, Michigan, from happening here.“We’re trying to make sure the water…
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You may take it for granted, but electricity gets to your outlets through wires that originate all the way back to the source.Now, if that’s a solar panel…
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An anticipated winter storm moved through the Kansas City metro Tuesday, bringing snow and ice in the early afternoon with the possibility of continuing…
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A hard freeze is bad for most flowers, but a patch of prairie in midtown Kansas City has seen so-called “frost flowers” in full bloom this winter.Frost…
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A team of astronomers led by a UMKC professor have nailed down more particulars about the most distant massive galaxy cluster ever discovered.Galaxy…