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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.
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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…
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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…
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KINSLEY, Kansas — In the late 1980s, drought left the wells that supply water to the city of Hays and Russell in western Kansas precariously low. The…
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WICHITA — State regulators have expanded their investigation into what’s causing a recent string of earthquakes in eastern Wichita.Regulators say the…
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Sedgwick County is reminding residents that they can still recycle their used Christmas trees.The county’s Environmental Resources Department has set up…
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Seven low-intensity earthquakes have rattled parts of the Wichita area since Thanksgiving, but a Kansas expert on seismic activity says residents should…
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GREAT BEND, Kansas — Emerging infectious diseases like the coronavirus don’t just threaten humans. They’re also a major concern for the livestock industry…
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More than a century after the arrival of the railroads to the Flint Hills of Kansas, a large-scale track expansion is tearing up a scenic stretch in some…
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Kansas ranchers eager to prepare their land for cattle grazing have mostly brushed off the plea from state health officials to voluntarily cut back this…