Climate Change

Scientists are running tests in fields around the world to see if basalt rock will work to keep the soil healthy, increase yield and reduce agriculture's contribution to greenhouse gas emissions.

Dennis Moriarty, 80, planted 1,500 square feet of wildflowers in front of his home to attract pollinators. Now he faces a city citation and and a possible court date if he doesn't trim the garden back.

With aggressive growing patterns and sinister tactics, Old World bluestem is crowding out native grass species and remaking Kansas prairies.

Microbes living in these aquatic environments consume carbon dioxide, a major greenhouse gas.

As summers heat up due to climate change, farmers are investing in technology designed to protect animals from the dangers of heat stress.

In the next few decades, climate change will cause more than two weeks every summer to become too hot to safely work outside. A new study argues that quick action is needed prevent that number of dangerously hot days from doubling.

Heat has killed hundreds of workers in the U.S., many in construction or agriculture, an investigation by NPR and Columbia Journalism Investigations found. Federal standards might have prevented them.

Missouri has experienced some of the warmest and wettest years on record in recent decades, said Pat Guinan, state climatologist and associate professor of climatology at the University of Missouri Extension.

Algae blooms are increasingly fouling Kansas lakes. The blooms can make the water cities take from those lakes taste and smell bad and force them to spend more money on chemicals to make it taste better.

Temperatures in Kansas City have swelled to around 100 degrees during several heat waves this summer, even before humidity. Studying athletes may help us learn how to adapt our bodies to worsening climates.

Rural Kansans stand to save a lot of money by switching to an electric car or truck. But availability, policy and infrastructure roadblocks could get in the way.

The 2020 Tokyo Olympics are bringing to light the economic struggles facing host cities when producing the games, and how the climate crisis threatens the health and safety of workers.