The Great Plains are no stranger to extreme weather, but climate change is making these events more frequent and severe.

Going back through U.S. weather station records dating to 1955, Kunkel found that rain over the past 20 years has become more ...

Even in places, like Central Texas, with a long history of floods, human-caused warming is creating the conditions for more ...

We normally think of trees as being good for the environment. But in parts of the Midwest and Great Plains, they're heating up the earth as woodlands take over grasslands. It’s Environment 101 ...

Destructive tornadoes have hit states such as Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky and Indiana this season as activity shifts east.

Eric Hunt of the University of Nebraska Extension discussed current and seasonal conditions as well as gave a climate outlook ...

The Midwest and Great Plains are gearing up for water fights fueled by climate change Harvest Public Media | By Kate Grumke Published September 3, 2024 at 4:00 AM CDT ...

It dries up streams and creeks. New research even finds that, across much of the Great Plains, the advent of trees actually makes climate change worse. Now a federal initiative equips landowners like ...

Under the Great Plains, there's an aquifer powering the region's agriculture system. But it's running out of water, prompting farmers in middle America to consider more environmentally friendly crops.

Sikowis Nobiss' first name means "fierce." Fierce women are the force behind the Great Plains Action Society, a nonprofit founded in 2017 that works to amplify Indigenous peoples' voices, largely ...