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Posts Tagged ‘Climate Change’

New Exhibition Asks Crucial Question: Where Are the Birds?

By | November 22, 2023 | 0
Eric Ward, vice president for public programming for Linda Hall Library, standing between two of his three photographs shown at the ornithology exhibition. Ward is particularly fond of the Brown-headed Nuthatch reintroduction display next to his pictures. He describes their distinct call as “sounding just like a rubber ducky.”

The birds of North America are dying. A new exhibit at the Linda Hall Library documents their decline, and the reasons behind it.

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Grain Belt Express Wins Final Approval in Missouri

By | October 13, 2023 | 0
The Green Belt Express will create clean energy power lines in Kansas and Missouri.

Regulators have given final approval to the owners of the Grain Belt Express transmission line to drop off thousands of megawatts of clean energy in Missouri. 

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Midwest Faces Future of Hazardous Heat, and Homes Aren’t Ready

By | September 15, 2023 | 0
Illustration of a resident sweating in a home.

Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska are part of an emerging “extreme heat belt” that could deliver more scorching days that will test existing dwellings.

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Wind Nearly Stopped Blowing Through Midwest Turbines in June

By | September 12, 2023 | 0
Wind turbines on the prairie.

The amount of renewable energy produced in the Midwest declined sharply in June because less wind blew through turbines in the region.

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Poor Regulatory Safeguards Leave Farmworkers Suffocating in the Face of Increasing Heat Waves

By | September 4, 2023 | 0
Farmworkers take a quick break in a field in southeastern Iowa.

A fifth of reported heat-related deaths are agricultural workers. Advocates are calling attention to the impact of climate change on this group from heat waves.

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