Researchers, patients optimistic in fight against alpha-gal syndrome
A support group and a lab in the St. Louis area provide resources for people with the allergy to mammal products — and evidence that its effects can be reversed.
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Researchers, patients optimistic in fight against alpha-gal syndrome
A support group and a lab in the St. Louis area provide resources for people with the allergy to mammal products — and evidence that its effects can be reversed.
Alpha-gal syndrome is spreading rapidly. Arkansas may hold clues to why it’s spreading, how it functions — and what comes next.
Diagnoses of the severe, tick-borne allergy are rising throughout the basin. The frontlines of the disease offer lessons.
In rural communities, fears amplified by ‘AI slop’ and social media hamper solar boom
Solar panel misinformation, spread by bots and by neighbors, derailed a project in Cajun Country that promised millions in local tax revenue. The same methods are being employed nationwide.
Census model: More than 800K Mississippi River basin households may not have access to air conditioning
Amid dangerous heat, resources for those without air conditioning vary at the local level
Experts say time is the key element for Louisiana vanishing coast, culture
Coastal scientists says change is inevitable, but hope is not lost
Climate experts say spring is coming earlier. How will that affect agriculture and ecosystems?
040126_HAA_Earlier_Spring_CC0:00/81× COLUMBIA, Mo. — As a row crop farmer in St. Joseph, Mo., Joe Lau
Pest or ally? Debate over beavers in Wisconsin has wildlife advocates weighing how to coexist
Many wildlife managers see the rodent as a nuisance that harms trout. But scientists argue they’re essential to controlling floods and wildfires.
Under new EPA rule, protections would dry up for wetlands across the Mississippi River basin
Many acres of wetlands across the vast Mississippi River basin would lose federal protection under a new rule proposed by
A tool tracking billion-dollar disasters is back after the Trump administration retired it
It shows that in 2025, approximately $40 billion in damage was caused by severe storms and tornadoes that struck states like Illinois, Missouri, Tennessee, and others.
Cruise to measure Gulf dead zone faces stormy funding future
Despite being called a “cruise,” the people on board The Pelican described the experience on the hypoxia monitoring expedition as
A warming climate is changing growing conditions, shifting planting zones northward
CRAWFORDSVILLE, Iowa — A few years ago, Holly Jones started studying the micro-climate and the topography on her family farm
Drought means ‘drier than normal,’ but ‘normal’ is changing
ClimateDrought FINAL0:00/2331× Missouri State Climatologist Zack Leasor works in an office divided by time. On the right sits