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With less than a half-day drive, you can get out of Kansas City and do it relatively safely, even in the middle of a pandemic.
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Unprecedented flooding last year devastated many towns across the Midwest that are still struggling to come back. As Nebraska’s climate continues to...
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The more than 13 million American households that get their drinking water from private wells aren’t required by state or federal environmental agencies...
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On a recent bright, clear day in eastern Nebraska, a small red machine crept through a lush field of soybeans. From the highway, it looked like a small...
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Wrens chirp and butterflies fly between clover blossoms in a pasture in northeast Nebraska. It’s a serene scene until Dave Wright calls his cows and...
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Over the last two years, Rob Van Vleet has been slowly scrapping the last vestiges of Kimball, Nebraska’s first wind farm. The wind turbines are made to...
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Every summer, thousands of Midwestern kids as young as 13 load onto school buses early in the morning to do one of the hottest, dirtiest temporary jobs...
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Rural communities are some of the most politically disenfranchised when it comes to climate policy, and last year’s National Climate Change Report...
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The Missouri River swamped Scott Olson’s land in March — the second time in the last eight years. Flooding tore holes in his fields and left mounds of...
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The catastrophic flooding in Missouri, Nebraska, Iowa and Kansas last month caused more than $12 billion in damage, by one estimate. But much more is at…
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Family structures—and farms themselves—are much more complicated than they used to be. Today, farm transition and land transfer are now among the...
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A powerful weather system swept through the region, bringing blizzard conditions and leaving many communities with record-setting floods. At least two people have died.