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The ongoing drought in Kansas isn’t only parching crops and drinking water supplies. It’s also hurting wildlife as the Kansas wetlands that normally act as vital pit stops for migrating birds dry up.
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What is believed to have started as a mulch fire spread to both sides of Interstate 470.
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While a prolonged drought and hot days have delayed the prime fall colors, leaves are finally beginning to change. Tree experts and amateur leaf admirers share their favorite places to view the splendor.
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Barges are moving along the Mississippi River much more slowly and with lighter loads as they try to get corn and soybean harvest to ports.
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Reservoirs that feed the Kansas River during times of drought are filling up with mud. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has an idea to slow the process.
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Kansas and Missouri — along with most of the U.S. — are plagued with a stubborn drought that the state’s two governors have declared to be an emergency. Most of southern Kansas is in extreme or exceptional drought.
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Thanks to decades of conservation efforts, Hays has become the California of Kansas — a place where thinking about your water use is a way of life. For now, it’s an outlier. But as climate change brings drier, hotter weather to Kansas, more cities may have to follow a similar path.
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Dry, hot conditions have baked crops throughout most of the Midwest and Great Plains, even in places that started out the growing season with excessive rains.
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There's a temporary free-for-all at Ellis City Lake, where the same hideous drought that's killing western Kansas crops is poised to kill the fish. So many of the usual limits on fishing have been lifted to harvest fish before they die.
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Drought is taking its toll on western Kansas cornfields this year. And all that dead corn could mean higher prices for products that depend on the state's grain supply, such as ethanol-infused gasoline and corn-fed beef.
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Much of the Great Plains is way behind on moisture. The drought has drained water levels at many rivers and lakes, uncovering historical relics that are typically submerged.
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How bad is the Kansas drought? Among the most severe in recorded history. But some other years were more extreme.