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Posts Tagged ‘Kansas News Service’

Insects Don’t Get Love Like Other Animals. But Kansas Can’t Survive Without Them

By | June 3, 2024 | 0
Entomologist Mary Liz Jameson, right, shows Luz Horton which kinds of dung beetles likely live on the land where she and her husband, Jamin Horton, own a bison ranch.

Scientists are trying to figure out why insects are struggling, what it means for ecosystems and how it will ultimately affect people.

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Trees are Spreading Across the Great Plains, Making Climate Change Worse

By | May 6, 2024 | 0
Eastern red cedars are taking over grasslands in the Dakotas, Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma. In most temperate grasslands around the world, gaining a tree canopy won't help cool the planet.

We often think trees are good for the environment. But in the Midwest and Great Plains, they’re worsening climate change as woodlands take over grasslands.

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A ‘Green Glacier’ is Burying Prairies, Threatening Ranchers and Wildlife

By | April 23, 2024 | 4
An eastern red cedar catches fire. Controlled fires, such as this one on grassland managed by Kansas State University scientists, are needed to save prairies from becoming woodland and shrubland.

A “Green Glacier” is grinding across the Great Plains, burying some of the most threatened habitat on the planet beneath dense junipers and shrubland.

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Ethanol Plants Want to Bury CO2 in Kansas to Cut Carbon Footprints

By | February 20, 2024 | 0
Corn piled outside of a grain elevator

Two companies in Kansas want to pump carbon dioxide emissions deep underground to combat climate change. But environmental groups and landowners are opposed.

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Thousands More People are Now Traveling to Kansas for Abortions, Research Finds

By | December 8, 2023 | 0
Trust Women officials say most of the clinic's patients are from nearby states.

In the first half of 2023, nearly two-thirds of people getting abortions in Kansas traveled from out-of-state, according to data from the Guttmacher Institute.

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