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

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.

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 ...

MANHATTAN — The prairie of the Great Plains evokes a certain image ... the wider range of plants on grazed land could help as a shifting climate brings higher temperatures and more severe ...

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 ...

The report suggests that fewer cold snaps and a longer growing season in the Great Plains could lure people migrating from other regions in search of a new place to live. Climate change might be ...

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

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 ...

“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 ...