climate change

Half a dozen rural Oklahoma businesses and agriculture producers will receive funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

With extreme floods all over the world filling headlines, researchers at the University of Oklahoma predict things will only get worse.

Increase of extreme weather prompts NPR to create new Climate Desk for reporting on environment and climate change.

Heat records are being shattered in Oklahoma this week. On Tuesday, for the first time in its 25 years of collecting this data, the Oklahoma Mesonet recorded temperatures of 103 degrees or higher at every single one of its 120 weather stations around the state.

Oklahoma City Mayor David Holt was in Nevada last week for the annual meeting of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, where gun violence, immigration, and climate change were some of the main topics of discussion. After returning to Oklahoma, Holt talked with KGOU’s Dani Ingram about each of those issues.

New research has found flash flooding events are likely to become more severe in the future if carbon dioxide emissions continue at their current rate.

Researchers at Oklahoma State University are looking into whether a rare and threatened beetle could provide new ways to preserve meat and fight bacteria.

Environmental problems are causing a troubling trend in grasshopper populations, and its implications stretch far beyond insects.

Oklahoma’s NPR member stations are producing a series of stories focused on infrastructure in the state. Today, extreme weather is becoming more likely in Oklahoma. February’s deep freeze is just the latest example not only of unusual weather, but of the disruption to our electric grid that can result.

Oklahoma City recently recorded 14-below zero, the coldest temperature for the city since 1899. Meteorologists say there may be a man made reason that…