Missouri Department of Natural Resources

Shu Yu Hsu analyzes a wastewater sample to determine its coroanvirus concentration at the lab where she works University of Missouri.

Scientists Test State's Wastewater To Learn Where Coronavirus Could Strike Next

Sarah Fentem

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Missouri health and environmental officials will soon test wastewater statewide to determine where and when coronavirus outbreaks could occur. Researchers…

Dave Gullic, who works with the DNR's water quality monitoring section, nets a fish in Jefferson City's Binder Lake. The department samples fish tissues for mercury, as part of a monitoring process required by the EPA.

Health, Science, Environment

Missouri Has More Than 350 Blighted Lakes And Rivers — Some Might Be In Your Backyard

Shahla Farzan

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The Missouri Department of Natural Resources has identified a new batch of lakes and streams that do not meet water quality standards.The state agency…

The new 144-mile segment of the Rock Island Trail would span from Windsor, Missouri, in the western part of the state to Beaufort in Franklin County.

Government, Politics & Issues

Rock Island Trail Takes A Step Forward But Still Needs Millions

Jonathan Ahl

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Utility company Ameren has come to an agreement with Missouri’s Department of Natural Resources to donate an old rail line for use as a recreational…

A view of Lake Taneycomo in February 2018.

Health, Science, Environment

Missouri Environmentalists Sue EPA, Seeking To Stop Runoff Pollution In Lakes

Eli Chen

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Updated at 1:09 p.m. with comments from environmentalists — A Missouri environmental advocacy group is suing the Environmental Protection Agency, claiming…

Solar panels are showing up more often on farms. File foto from Fickr

Economy & Business

Farmers Look At Solar Panels As A Hedge Against Crop Prices And Trade Uncertainty

Jonathan Ahl

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Low crop prices and an ongoing trade war limiting exports are adding to the financial struggles of farming. Across the nation, and in Missouri, an…

A pesticide storage tank deposited by floodwaters along Interstate 29 in northwest Missouri, near the Iowa border.

Health, Science, Environment

Hundreds Of ‘Orphaned Containers’ Washed Up In Missouri During Spring Floods

Shahla Farzan

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Floodwaters carved a path of devastation through the Midwest this year — and carried hundreds of storage tanks downstream to Missouri.The Missouri…

The Missouri Commission on Global Climate Change and Ozone Depletion released their policy suggestions in December 1991.

Missouri Came Up with A Plan To Slow Climate Change 30 Years Ago, Then Did Little About It

Aviva Okeson-Haberman

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In the spring of 1989, Missouri lawmakers were motivated to figure out how climate change would affect the state’s economy, political future and social...

Part of the $4.7 million sewer system upgrade involves removing illegal sewer bypasses, like the one pictured here.

Health, Science, Environment

MSD Constructs 3-Mile Sewer To Address Overflows In Ladue

Eli Chen

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The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District is building a three-mile sewer line underneath the city of Ladue to address overflow problems in the area.The…

The Missouri River in St. Charles County in September 2019.

Health, Science, Environment

Missouri Farmers Try To Reduce Runoff, But Cleaning Gulf Dead Zone May Take Decades

Eli Chen

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When corn and soybean farmer Kenny Reichard stopped plowing some of his fields in northern Missouri in 1982, other farmers told him that it was a terrible…

An active coal-ash pond at the Meramec Energy Center in St. Louis County in February 2018.

Health, Science, Environment

Missouri DNR Pulls Controversial Plan To Regulate Coal Ash Ponds And Landfills

Eli Chen

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The Missouri Department of Natural Resources has scrapped its proposal to regulate disposal sites for coal-fired power plants, a plan that…