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.
Far offshore, scientists find fresh evidence of human harm to reefs
The Gulf’s Flower Garden Banks has been viewed as healthy, but a new study shows signs of damage.
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.
Scientists find smaller ‘dead zone’ in the Gulf than initially expected this summer
At approximately 1,332 square miles, the low oxygen area is the second-smallest in four decades of measurement
Experts say time is the key element for Louisiana vanishing coast, culture
Coastal scientists says change is inevitable, but hope is not lost
Inside the fight against ‘zombie deer disease,’ scientists confront changing politics
A lab in Louisiana is a hub for chronic wasting disease research and detection. Outside, scientists face skepticism and backlash.
Chronic wasting disease threatens U.S. deer. But when one state took strong measures, the pushback was fierce.
Thirty-six states have detected cases of CWD, but many hunters are more fearful of losing game than the disease itself.
Why are river deltas disappearing? They’re sinking faster than many people realize.
It’s not just that sea levels are rising. Scientists believe fossil fuel extraction and river engineering are also factors behind coastline disappearance.
New dashboard provides drought data across Mississippi River Basin
Missouri is almost completely in drought and Iowa is almost drought-free. The top and bottom of the Mississippi River
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
Retired National Weather Service director says cuts could lead to ‘needless loss of life’
The National Weather Service, which is responsible for tracking storms and warning the public about them, has lost hundreds of
‘A living laboratory’: An accidental delta taught Louisiana scientists how to rebuild wetlands
ST. MARY PARISH, La. — Amid the rapid erosion of Louisiana's coast, something hopeful is happening where the Atchafalaya
