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Posted in Climate Change, News, State News

Missouri finally mining untapped potential with move toward renewable energy

  • Mark Ossolinski
  • posted on July 13, 2021July 13, 2021
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After years spent lagging behind its neighbors in renewable energy production, Missouri may finally be on the cusp of a green makeover of its power grid. That’s the cautiously optimistic prognosis
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Posted in Climate Change, News, State News

Shinrin-yoku: How the practice of forest bathing helps people and nature connect

  • Kit Wiberg
  • posted on July 12, 2021July 12, 2021
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Imagine if trees could speak. What would they say? As you’re walking through a forest, what would you hear? Imagine hearing screams, weeping, calls for help as all the trees surrounding suffer
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Posted in Climate Change, News, State News

Factoring in Food Miles: What To Know About Shopping Locally

  • Fairriona Magee
  • posted on July 8, 2021July 8, 2021
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Every week, Ranjana Hans walks through a long hallway leading to a large kitchen where she makes her bright, orange-tinted products and packages them inside clear bottles with yellow labels and
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Posted in Agriculture, Climate Change, State News

Climate change triggers rare crop diseases in Missouri

  • Colleen Wouters
  • posted on July 7, 2021July 7, 2021
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New crop diseases pervading Missouri have been linked to climate change, and they’re directly impacting crop production. Climate change has already made Missouri a little more hot and humid, but
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Posted in Central Mo, Climate Change, News

City of Columbia says trail construction is a conservation strategy

  • Xander Negozio
  • posted on July 7, 2021July 7, 2021
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Conservation lies at the heart of two hotly contested issues: environmental preservation and recreation. The city of Columbia has received backlash from environmentalist group It’s Our Wild Nature
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Posted in Climate Change, News, State News

A burden to bear: humans remain greatest threat to one of Missouri’s biggest predator

  • Xander Negozio
  • posted on July 7, 2021July 7, 2021
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Although climate change poses a threat to many species across the Midwest, researchers say black bears are resilient and relatively unbothered by its current effects. Much of this resilience comes
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Posted in Climate Change, News, State News

With temperatures rising and loads growing, Columbia’s electric grid needs work

  • Grace Zokovitch
  • posted on July 5, 2021July 7, 2021
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Around the country, cities’ infrastructure is being tested by the weight of extreme weather and climate change. In the past week temperatures in the pacific Northwest have trampled record highs,
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Climate change worsens flooding devastation across the Midwest

  • Kit Wiberg
  • posted on July 2, 2021July 2, 2021
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Loaded up with camera gear and permission from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to get up close, John Moon III made his way to Harry S. Truman Reservoir in Warsaw, Mo. A contracted stormtracker for
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Posted in Agriculture, Climate Change, News, State News

Q&A: A Conversation with Darrick Steen

  • Paul Schloesser
  • posted on June 29, 2021June 29, 2021
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In March, a collaboration between the Missouri Corn Merchandising Council, the Missouri Soybean Merchandising Council, MFA, Inc. and Ecosystem Services Market Consortium (ESMC) launched a “carbon
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Posted in Agriculture, Climate Change, News, State News

Missouri moves toward sustainability with new hazardous waste disposal programs

  • Fairriona Magee
  • posted on June 29, 2021June 29, 2021
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Household hazardous waste disposal has been a point of concern for a long time, but as the effects of climate change become more visible, so does the concern for how this waste is disposed of. 
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