Exploring the Ozarks Outdoors: freshare.net

The Ozarks is home to pristine rivers like the Buffalo, the White, the Little Red and the Spring. As more people discover this land we call home, protecting those rivers and the ecosystems they nourish becomes increasingly important. Bryan Pijanowski,…[more]

One in four Missouri families with children worries about putting enough food on the table, according to the 2010 Missouri Hunger Atlas recently released by a team of University of Missouri researchers.

The atlas, a county level report…[more]

Some farmers use chicken litter as a nutrient-rich, free means of fertilizing hay fields and crops. A group of researchers recently conducted a study that showed high levels of arsenic in the runoff from fields where litter was applied to…[more]

The sixth annual University of Missouri Tomato Festival will take place Sept. 9 at the MU Bradford Research and Extension Center.

Visitors will have the chance to taste 70 different kinds of tomatoes and 42 varieties of peppers…[more]

An Oklahoma State University special seminar will feature world famous innovator, author, activist and autistic expert Temple Grandin.

Grandin, a professor of animal science at Colorado State University and a designer of livestock-handling facilities, will speak on Sept.…[more]

Eleven Point Resource Advisory Committee (RAC) is accepting project proposals that would enhance forest ecosystems or restore and improve land health and water quality on Mark Twain National Forest and near-by Oregon, Ripley, and Shannon counties lands.

Eleven…[more]

Despite their tiny brains, bees have remarkable navigation capabilities based on their vision. Now scientists have recreated a light-weight imaging system mimicking a honeybee’s field of view, which could change the way we build mobile robots and small flying vehicles.…[more]

Historians and military analysts have pored over the Wilson’s Creek battle that occurred during the first months of the Civil War for clues about an event where Missouri was almost lost to the Union. While artifacts and written records detail…[more]

Americans have known for a long time about the harmful effects of lead.

Because it can cause anemia, neurological impairment and immune system impairment, lead was banned from paint in 1977, plumbing used for drinking water in 1986…[more]

When the Missouri River flooded in 1993 and 1995, it left a deep layer of sandy silt that covered thousands of acres of rich farmland. Now, MU forestry researchers may have found a crop that can survive a flood and…[more]