Climate change is becoming a major driver of rising temperatures in the Great Plains. Summers are getting hotter, with ...

The Great Plains are facing increasing fire risks due to climate change, and efforts are underway to get prairie-dwellers to adapt to the new reality. Climate change is increasing the fire risk on ...

In many parts of the Great Plains, trees do not mitigate global ... note that actions to combat climate change and actions to help us live in a warming world aren’t always the same.

Higher temperatures caused by climate change are driving complex processes that make droughts bigger and more severe, new ...

The southern Great Plains of the United States—around ... “It’s a really interesting and complex response to climate change,” says Alex Haberlie, an atmospheric scientist at Northern ...

Smoke from Canadian wildfires is engulfing much of the eastern and central United States and and is expected to continue for ...

The resources in this content pack are designed to encourage learners to explore, analyze, and discuss the importance of ...

Water scarcity could threaten the Midwest as climate change puts pressure on ... contentious future over water in the Midwest and Great Plains. Periodic courtroom dramas over water may become ...

Stephanie Sy reports from Kansas for our series on the impact of climate change, Tipping Point. In the heart of the country, Great Plains farmers and ranchers produce a quarter of all U.S. crops ...

A new study shows the Great Lakes are vulnerable to more extreme temperature highs and lows over the decades due to climate ...

“Climate change is a long term trend that makes winter ... previously drop over the west is now falling as snow over the Great Plains. In some places—like Michigan or New York—“lake ...