Earth Systems and Climate Change

EPA data shows pollution bumps that are among the largest in decades, just as the agency rolls back rules cracking down on pollution from coal-fired power plants.

The past three years have been the world’s hottest on record by far, with 2025 almost tied with 2023 for second place.

Christopher Stark and Dan Giammar bring environmental research and the arts together in “Climate Change in Concert.”

Researchers are uncovering what they think is the metropolis of Marsmanda, an iron-making city that could rewrite the history of the famed trade route

It’s officially fall in the northern hemisphere, but depending where you are, it might not look like it.

Just like the classical masters before them, Kansas City composers use local landscapes as inspiration for their work.

A recent research study conducted by the Konecky Laboratory at Washington University in St. Louis used advanced climate models to assess the deadly storms that occurred in July 2022.

To coal or not to coal?

A WashU research team spent 45 days traveling to different wildfire locations in the western United States where they sampled gaseous smoke and aerosol species and analyzed their chemical and optical properties.

Take allergy medicine a few weeks before pollen counts rise to get ahead of the congestion, sneezing and runny nose, experts say