The sisters at Heartland Farm mark just one of several religious communities in Kansas turning their attention to a modern crisis — climate change. Motivated by their religious beliefs, they make a faith-based case for environmentalism.

MANHATTAN, Kansas — Climate change conjures notions of rising water levels along the coasts, severe drought in the Intermountain West and the record…

PRATT, Kansas — This summer marks the third year that Kansans have grown hemp for industrial uses.Yet growing the less sexy cousin of the plant associated…

In a typical February, the small Wabaunsee school district just west of Topeka pays a natural gas utility bill of about $4,300. This year, its bill was…

Digital Democracy on Tap convened on May 11, 2021, to discuss the status of energy in Kansas. We covered energy-related bills that went to the Kansas…

SALINA, Kansas — Ebony Murell and a few interns meticulously sort 99 kinds of silphium. It’s a wild relative to a sunflower. And the biologists at The…

Scientists say that if we’re going to stop rising global temperatures, the world will need to greatly reduce the amount of carbon it’s emitting into the…

MANHATTAN, Kansas — Ellen Welti has a Ph.D. in, essentially, grasshoppers.And yet she was still mystified about why the number of grasshoppers in a…

WICHITA, Kansas — Utility companies in Kansas will soon have a new accounting tool that could speed the closure of coal-fired power plants — and save…

While getting his master’s degree from Wichita State University, Jesse Marks wrote his thesis on food insecurity.Along the way, he discovered that food…