global warming

Think of this year’s drought as a sort of dress rehearsal to consider the drier, hotter future that scientists predict climate change has in store. Long-lasting droughts could alter the way we live.

The plan is a roadmap for future environmental policy and aims for the city to be carbon neutral by 2040. Despite opposition from utility companies Spire and Evergy, the plan passed with few changes.

By focusing on six core climate-related issues, the Climate Protection and Resiliency Plan aims to make Kansas City carbon neutral by 2040. However, energy companies say the plan limits consumer choice.

The plan gives guidance to help the city reach carbon neutrality while taking into account environmental justice. Advocates want it passed without changes, but utility companies Spire and Evergy want their voices heard.

City leaders are focusing on expanding the city's greenery to help fix the causes and effects of global warming. During the day in Kansas City, areas of asphalt and buildings can be as much as seven degrees hotter than outer-lying areas.

A growing number of young adults say the future of the planet is on their minds as they decide whether they want to have kids. Plus, we’ll hear how a years-long decline in college enrollment is prompting the Kansas Board of Regents to consider cutting degree programs.

Extreme weather events and fluctuating temperatures caused by climate change are directly affecting agriculture in America's breadbasket.

A newly released climate action plan calls for better bike infrastructure and public transit options, more investment in clean energy and access to fresh, healthy food in all neighborhoods. The goal is for Kansas City to be carbon-neutral by 2040.

Mothers Out Front fights for clean energy to insure a healthy future for children.

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

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.