Editor’s note: This is the second of a two-part package. In part one: hear from scientists and those living in inner cities about the negative impacts of the urban heat island effect. When Andy
Editor’s note: This is the first of a two-part package. In part two: Various city sustainability directors and climatologists from around Missouri discuss solutions to urban heat islands. July
From ancient Greece to the Dadaists, a movement consisting of artists who rejected modern capitalist ideology and instead focused on irrationality, critique has paved the way for new eras in
President Joe Biden’s $1 trillion bill targeted at revamping the country’s infrastructure could create jobs for Missourians in the state’s booming renewable energy sector. The Senate approved
If you’ve regularly spent time hunting ducks in Missouri, you’ve likely noticed unusual shifts in their migration patterns in the last couple of years. Migration changes aren’t terribly unusual
Our warming planet is the catalyst behind heavier rains that threaten to bring about a hidden danger — rising water tables seeping into unlined coal ash pits, mixing with and contaminating
Over the past few years, the range of black vulture populations has continued expanding northward, leading to conflict between these birds of prey and surprised farmers and recreationalists. Since
In Missouri, a 2015 law prevents legislators from banning single use plastics, a devastating source of pollution that has largely gone unrecycled. Half of all plastics are meant to be used only once,
A Sunday drive through the Show Me State looks different now than it did 20 years ago for many reasons; one of them being the variety of square-shaped solar frames that peak out from atop homes and
It is hard to believe that something seemingly insignificant, like a beetle, could kill a fully grown tree. Typically, the main culprit of tree destruction is humans and natural phenomena, like