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Emerald Ash Borer Confirmed in Jackson County

The Kansas Department of Agriculture, along with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, has confirmed the presence of emerald ash borer (EAB) in Jackson County, Kansas.

Evergy Installs New Electric Vehicle Charging Station At Kansas State University

Kansas State University has continued its commitment to renewable energy with a newly installed electric vehicle charging station on the Manhattan campus.

Remembrance Lake: In Japan, climate change unravels 600 years of history held dear

Kiyoshi Miyasaka climbs the stone steps of his shrine, autumn leaves crunching under his feet. The Shinto priest, dressed in white, aims an orange leaf blower at a row of cobblestones and clears the path of fallen leaves.

Fires in the Amazon: Changing the landscape irreparably

Fire is not natural in the Amazon. Virgin rainforest, no matter how fierce the sun, is too wet to catch alight. If the forest burns it is almost always because of humans.

251K Pounds of Wood Debris Removed from Wildcat Creek

Over the past couple of weeks, City of Manhattan Parks Crews have been working to clear a log jam on Wildcat Creek near Pecan Circle, south of K-18.

Program To Highlight Extending The Grazing Season With Cover Crops And Crop Residues

How to best incorporate cover crops and crop residues into your forage program to extend the grazing season and lower costs, will be a focus at the upcoming Winter Forage Conference, Tuesday, Dec. 10, at the Sedgwick County Extension Education Center, 7001 W. 21st Street N., Wichita, Kansas 67205.

Farmers And Ranchers Finish Business At 101st Annual Meeting In Manhattan

Yesterday, more than 400 Farm Bureau members of Kansas wrapped up business for their farm organization at Kansas Farm Bureau’s 101st annual meeting.

Growth in global carbon emissions slowed in 2019: report

A surprise drop in coal use in the United States and Europe has helped to slow the growth of global carbon dioxide emissions this year, with softening demand in China and India also contributing, according to a study published on Wednesday.

Kansas Adjutant General To Testify Before House Science Committee

As Ranking Member of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology Subcommittee on Environment, U.S. Congressman Roger Marshall, M.D. is proud to announce the participation of Kansas Adjutant General, Maj. Gen. Lee E. Tafanelli, on the panel to speak about his experience in reducing the impacts of severe wind events.

K-State Beef Cattle Experts Share Considerations For Retaining Females In The Herd

Late fall is the time many cattle producers are weaning spring born calves and making selections for replacement females.

Earth’s temperature likely marks hottest decade on record: report

The past decade is almost certain to be the hottest on record, weather experts warned on Tuesday, painting a bleak picture of vanishing sea ice, devastating heatwaves and encroaching seas in a report launched at a climate summit in Spain.

AEP to pull out of Clean Coal Coalition

Six months after the parent company of Public Service Company of Oklahoma came out publicly with support of the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, the firm says it will not renew membership next year.

K-State To Host Massive Research Data Hub On Everything From Marijuana To Education

What if researchers could go to a single hub for vast deposits of information on a range of issues from water quality to court rulings to the medicinal powers of marijuana?

THE SECOND DEATH OF DOROTHY STANG

Emboldened by Bolsonaro, Land-Hungry Ranchers Are Destroying a Pioneering Project to Help the Poor and Save the Amazon

Months Of Flooding Killed Kansas’ Trees And State Park Tourism

Nebraska Farm Bureau Pushes EPA to Keep Promise, Uphold RFS

The Nebraska Farm Bureau is pushing the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to keep its promise as it relates to protecting the integrity of the federal Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS).

How private weather forecasters are overtaking NOAA

Are private weather companies exceeding the abilities of the National Weather Service in prediction of weather?

Global temperature rises could bring ‘destructive’ effects, U.N. says

Greenhouse gas emissions surged to a record level last year and world temperatures could rise by more than twice the globally agreed warming limit if nothing is done, a U.N. report showed on Tuesday.

Months Of Flooding Killed Kansas’ Trees And State Park Tourism

The Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism stands to lose millions of dollars after record spring rains led to park closures, property damage and washed-out roads.

Public Input Sought For Kansas River Basin Watershed Study

The Kansas City District and our partners encourage the public to attend public scoping meetings being held in the Kansas River Basin to provide input on the Kansas River Reservoirs Flood and Sediment Study, a joint-federal and state watershed study effort.

CattleTrace Holds First-Ever Industry Symposium

More than 200 beef industry leaders from across the country descended on Manhattan, Kansas, on Nov. 22, 2019, for the first-ever CattleTrace Industry Symposium.

Thanksgiving Travel Alert: Slow Down, Move Over – It’s the Law in Kansas

Emergency roadside assistance is at the core of AAA’s traffic safety mission. In fact, AAA Kansas projects assisting more than 1,900 stranded motorists during the busy upcoming Thanksgiving holiday weekend.

Greenhouse gases accelerate to new peak in 2018, U.N. says

Greenhouse gases in the atmosphere hit a new record in 2018, exceeding the average yearly increase of the last decade and reinforcing increasingly damaging weather patterns, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Monday.

Governor Kelly Discusses Quivira Water Rights

Governor Laura Kelly expressed her support for a recent decision by the U.S. Department of the Interior and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service addressing concerns involving the Quivira National Wildlife Refuge in Kansas.

Kansas Cattle Town Dodge City Bucks A Rural Trend With Growth Driven By Immigrants

The history of this small city built on the cattle trade sets it apart from most towns in rural Kansas.

What Could Happen if a $9.4 Billion Chemical Plant Comes to “Cancer Alley”

In St. James Parish, Louisiana, a Taiwanese industrial giant seems likely to be granted a permit to build a billion-dollar plastics plant.

New rules call for thousands of miles of underground oil and gas lines to be mapped and made public

Colorado oil and gas regulators adopted new rules for mapping, testing and cleaning up flow lines

Devon leader warns drilling moratorium on federal lands will harm national economy

While environmentalists are critical of the recent leasing of federal land in Oklahoma and New Mexico by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, one Oklahoma energy leader believes there are many obstacles before any fracking moratorium is enacted on federal land. And he says any drilling moratorium will hurt the nation’s economy.

$Study blames fracking for earthquakes in Eagle Ford play of South Texas$

Study blames fracking for earthquakes in Eagle Ford play of South Texas

Just as scientists studied earthquakes in Oklahoma and blamed the surge in seismic activity on oil and gas wells and disposal wells, another new study is making a similar claim of earthquake activity in the Eagle Ford Shale of South Texas.

New data shows progress in reducing greenhouse gas emissions in Washington

signs of progress in the state’s efforts to cut the carbon pollution

Distilling Company Agrees To Pay $1 Million To Settle Case Over Toxic Cloud That Swept Over Atchison

MGP Ingredients Inc., a leading producer of distilled spirits and specialty proteins and starches, has agreed to pay a fine of $1 million in connection with a toxic chemical release at its plant in Atchison, Kansas, three years ago.

Fossil fuel polluters from U.S. to China far off climate targets: UN

The world’s major fossil fuel producers are set to bust global environmental goals with excessive coal, oil and gas extraction in the next decade, the United Nations and research groups said on Wednesday in the latest warning over climate crisis.

When the U.S. Tried to Control Hurricanes

From the 1940s to the 1970s, Project Stormfury and other government efforts tested the limits of the power of science.

Report: Colorado’s Superfund sites among those threatened by climate change

Five of 20 sites in the state are in areas vulnerable to fires and flooding

Atchison Company Agrees to Pay $1 Million For Violating Clean Air Act

An Atchison, Kan., company today pleaded guilty to violating the federal Clean Air Act and is expected to pay a $1 million fine, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.

Brazil Amazon deforestation soars to 11-year high under Bolsonaro

Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest rose to its highest in over a decade this year, government data on Monday showed, confirming a sharp increase under the leadership of right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro.

What you need to know about a ballot effort to bring wolves back to Colorado

Should voters make this call of the wild?

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Energy secretary nominee vows to remove plutonium from Nevada

Deputy Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette, tapped by President Donald Trump to replace Secretary Rick Perry, sailed through a Senate confirmation hearing Thursday where he said he would uphold an agreement to remove weapons-grade plutonium from Nevada.

Tar Creek restoration ideas sought from public

The Tar Creek Trustees are seeking submissions of restoration project ideas from the public according to the Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality.

Long-standing legal battle over rural pipeline continues

The long-standing legal battle over a plan to pump groundwater from eastern Nevada to Las Vegas continued this week as attorneys from both sides of the fight pushed to undo as well as defend differing parts of a former state engineer’s decision to block the plan.

Kansas Reservoirs Are Filling Up With Dirt, And It Won’t Be Easy To Clean Up

Some of Kansas’ major reservoirs are filling up with sediment, and if something isn’t done to address the issue, parts of eastern Kansas could see water shortages and insufficient flood control as soon as 30 years from now.

Land near Mesquite withdrawn from BLM oil lease auction, critic says

A swath of federal land in southeastern Nevada will not be auctioned off Tuesday as planned amid warnings that fracking there could threaten the city of Mesquite’s water supply, according to a critic of the proposed sale.

Group predicts coming water shortage in Permian Basin

An environmental group predicts a water shortage will develop in the Permian Basin with continued exploration by oil and gas firms. The left-leaning Center for American Progress issued a report claiming that increased drilling will result in water shortages for cities and towns, ranchers and farmers, according to Reuters.

Fact checking “world scientists” who signed climate petition

Some fact-checking by the Washington Times of a recent climate petition signed by more than 11,000 reported “world scientists” led to some phony signatures. Who would have thought that Micky Mouse lived in Nambia and had become a scientist after being a cartoon star for decades?

Kansas continues to exceed renewable energy goal

With $11 billion in wind energy in the past decade, the state of Kansas has topped its Renewable Energy Standard goal by 16.5 percent in the past year.

EPA probes allegations of document destruction by former aide to Inhofe

The former aide to Oklahoma U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe who was named the EPA’s chief of staff has come under an inspector general’s investigation whether he destroyed internal documents that should have been retained. The probe also involves actions concerning former EPA administrator Scott Pruitt.

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