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Microbes living in these aquatic environments consume carbon dioxide, a major greenhouse gas.
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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.
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Middle schoolers in the Kansas City area are paying close attention to Greta Thunberg and other youth climate activists making waves across the world.…
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Seven years ago, a toxic form of algae bloomed in Milford Lake near Junction City. Kansas had never really seen a bloom quite like it before. It lasted...
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(This is a digest of news from across the state.)Sedgwick Deputy KilledA call to the Sedgwick County Sheriff's Department early Sunday afternoon about a…
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Initially, blogs were personal online journals; by the mid-2000s, they went mainstream. What has happened to blogging since then? Especially now that all…
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For some, a belief in God and adherence to fact-based scientific research are mutually exclusive. That's not the case for Katherine Hayhoe, who's had…
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With ice caps shrinking and global temperatures on the rise, animals who live in the Arctic Circle are at increasing risk. Today, we speak with two…
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A short march from 27th and Grand to Washington Square Park kicked off Kansas City's "March for Science" Saturday morning. One of hundreds around the…
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At 1215 South Jefferson Avenue in St. Louis, a red brick building housed a chemical plant, owned by a black man who always dreamed of running his own…
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When you flip a light switch or plug something into an outlet, something usually happens. Lights come on, iPhones get charged. But where does that energy…
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Last year, a new species of rat was discovered on Manus Island, part of the Papua New Guinea Admiralty Group, just north of Australia. The discovery…