Earth Systems and Climate Change

As the city of St. Louis nears a year since a tornado changed the lives of many, a local university and community organizations are working to understand some of the environmental impacts of the twister.

The primal human experience of gazing into an unblemished cosmos is vanishing, being replaced by a dense, industrial field of 15,000 orbiting satellites with plans for half a million more by 2040.

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?