Climate Change

More young people say they're struggling with anxiety and depression related to climate change. In Kansas City, one mother is pushing the environmental movement to prioritize mental health and prevent activists from burning out.

As climate change worsens anxiety and depression among young people, Sami Aaron is teaching local environmentalists how to prioritize their mental health — instead of sacrificing themselves for the cause.

The federal government pays farmers to do things that fight global warming. And farmers want in. There's just not enough money to go around.

More home gardeners in Kansas City are deciding to fill their yards not with grass, but with native wildflowers, which are better for the environment. But that’s putting these homeowners in conflict with their neighbors, and Kansas City code.

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.