missouri environment

Places such as Minnesota and Austin, Texas, already use green infrastructure like rain gardens to absorb stormwater and keep pollution out of streams and lakes. Now communities across the Kansas City area could get on board.

Residents at the town hall spoke about water demand, tax subsidies and impacts to their rural identity.

A team of St. Louis University researchers studied the effects heat has on the survival and reproduction of treehoppers as climate change remains a threat.

Missouri homeowners can cut down the invasive Callery pear tree and receive a native tree in return.

Their research could help explain why the same strain of the plague can reemerge in the same area after years of inactivity and harm the local environment.

On a recent Friday morning, a group of about 20 Nature Conservancy Trustees, visitors and staff have gathered for a tour of the conservancy’s Dunn Ranch…

Fire plays an important role in many Midwestern ecosystems, but when it burns out of control it can also be devastating, as the wildfires in Oklahoma and…

The Eleven Point River flows for more than 100 miles through Oregon County, and right through the heart of the almost 4,200 acres the Department of…

A crucial part of the effort to mitigate climate change is finding alternatives to fossil fuels.A recent conference at the University of Missouri in…

Kansas City, St. Louis, and the State of Missouri have been awarded a combined 1.4 million dollars from the the Environmental Protection Agency.The award…