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Columbia’s original climate plan lacked provisions for equity and justice. Now the city’s trying to catch up

  • Xander Negozio and Galen Bacharier
  • posted on August 12, 2021August 18, 2021
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In June 2019, the city of Columbia adopted its Climate Action and Adaptation Plan, a document over a year in the making. It was to serve as a roadmap as Columbia took its place among the ranks of
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Posted in Climate Change, News, State News, Weather

Urban heat islands — not without solutions

  • Anna Kutz and Paul Schloesser
  • posted on August 12, 2021August 12, 2021
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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
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Posted in Climate Change, State News, Weather

Urban heat opens door to negative public health effects

  • Anna Kutz and Paul Schloesser
  • posted on August 12, 2021August 12, 2021
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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
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Posted in Climate Change, News, Southeast Mo, Southwest Mo, State News

Local Kansas City artists target climate change and wealth inequality

  • Xander Negozio
  • posted on August 12, 2021August 19, 2021
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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
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Posted in Climate Change, News, State News

Federal infrastructure bill will likely trigger job growth in Missouri’s clean energy industry

  • Mark Ossolinski
  • posted on August 11, 2021August 12, 2021
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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
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Posted in Climate Change, News, State News, Weather

The climate and hunting – Why are the ducks ducking Missouri?

  • Grace Zokovitch
  • posted on August 10, 2021August 10, 2021
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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
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Posted in Agriculture, Climate Change, News, Weather

Mimicking Nature: The Importance of Sustainable Cattle Farming

  • Kit Wiberg
  • posted on August 8, 2021August 10, 2021
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Cattle have been a part of agriculture since the very beginning. Humans have been relying on them to meet their needs for everything ranging from meat, dairy and agriculture to sometimes even
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Posted in Climate Change, News, State News, Weather

Climate change means more flooding: what will become of the contaminated water beneath Missouri’s coal ash ponds?

  • Colleen Wouters
  • posted on August 8, 2021August 8, 2021
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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
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Posted in Climate Change, News, State News, Weather

Missouri’s rising temperatures draw black vulture populations north

  • Xander Negozio
  • posted on August 5, 2021August 5, 2021
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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
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Posted in Climate Change, State News

Missouri legislature continues prohibition on single use plastic bans

  • Xander Negozio
  • posted on August 5, 2021August 5, 2021
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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,
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