prairie

Birders and farmers have for years reported seeing fewer and fewer birds, but what's to blame for the decrease?

In a few years, Kansas Citians will be able to wander 500 acres of tallgrass prairie close to home. A Johnson County park is in the midst of the area’s largest prairie restoration project.

Segment 1: Local lawyer finds a niche in space lawSpace is an exciting new frontier, challenging humanity to advance in math, science, and engineering.…

Vast amounts of prairie speckled with wildflowers once covered Missouri. But today, little remains of what was once 15 million acres. The loss has been…

Segment 1: Race Project KC is educating high school students on structural racism in Kansas City. Built off of Tanner Colby's book "Some of My Best…

Kansas City native Terry Evans has seen things firsthand that most of us never will: a melting glacier crumbling into the waters of Greenland, the…

Terry Evans has photographed the heart of industrial America, where she revealed the effects of pollutants on communities, as well as the glacial peaks of…

Segment 1: Mark Twain's love letter to American cuisine.Samuel Clemens, AKA Mark Twain, was an avid writer and traveler. He was also a champion of…

The booming calls of the lesser prairie chicken once rung out across western Kansas. Accounts from the 1800s mention bands of hunters bagging dozens of...

One year and nearly a half million torched acres after the Starbuck wildfire, strong winds blow across a parched Kansas landscape.In some ways, last…

Few people in their 80s are inclined, or able, to feed time and energy into a second career. Elizabeth Schultz is such an anomaly.As an English professor…

Drive along U.S. Route 400 in western Kansas, and you’ll see hundreds of metal sculptures on tall poles, some as high as 20 feet. It’s the work of…