BIPOC community members are invited to share how climate issues affect their communities as part of a session with the Douglas County sustainability team.
Crews will reroute Mill Creek to avoid the site of the Keystone Pipeline’s largest-ever oil spill, the oil pipeline’s parent company announced Tuesday.
Ken Lassman
This milkweed pod had most of its seeds float away to points unknown, save 5 little seeds which, bereft of the fluff, or coma, will likely slip to the ground near this plant, perhaps to grow there.
TC Energy hasn’t said yet what caused the Keystone’s biggest spill. And it didn’t answer a question about the pipeline’s operating pressure when the spill happened.
Greg Kramos / USFWS
Kansas congressmen are trying to use a federal tool to strike down the listing of the lesser prairie chicken as threatened or endangered, saying protecting the birds would have negative consequences for Kansas’ economy.
Legislators are almost certain to place the decline of the Ogallala Aquifer among their top priorities as the drought bearing down on Western Kansas hits the already depleted water supply.
Ken Lassman
Look closely and see some of the thousands of snow geese who flew west along the Kaw River Valley west of Topeka last week ahead of the snows and wind. Geese can read the weather pretty darn well.
It’s been one year since widespread wildfires tore across western and central Kansas. For the ranchers who lost so much, the rebuilding process is far from over.
TC Energy has established a no-fly zone over the Kansas site where its Keystone pipeline spilled 14,000 barrels of oil following drone footage of the disaster.
The compounding influence of adverse dry, hot and windy climate patterns slashed wheat yield 4% in Kansas and five other Great Plains states over the past 40 years, Kansas State University researchers reported in the scientific journal Nature Communications.
