Exploring the Ozarks Outdoors: freshare.net

Predicting the future is always a tricky business—just watch a TV weather report. Weather forecasts have come a long way, but almost every season there’s a snowstorm that seems to come out of nowhere, or one that’s forecast as ‘the…[more]

Many area lawn and garden enthusiasts are hoping above average winter temperatures right now don’t result in terrible outbreaks of plant eating insects this Spring and summer like so many old-timers say. However, one local horticulture specialist says “not so…[more]

Fungi may be unexpected allies in our efforts to keep hazardous lead under control. That’s based on the unexpected discovery that fungi can transform lead into its most stable mineral form. The findings reported online on January 12 in Current…[more]

A new stinkier stinkbug may hitchhike into Missouri this year to destroy crops and upset homeowners, says a University of Missouri entomologist.

The brown marmorated stink bug, a pest found in 33 states mostly to the east and…[more]

Missouri weather in 2011 was anything but boring.

From floods and drought to tornados and blizzards, the state saw more than a healthy dose of extreme weather events of every variety.

“Missouri saw many extreme weather…[more]

Hikers and campers take note. National park superintendents may stop you from bringing disposable plastic bottles onto park property. Last week, NPS Director Jonathan Jarvis issued a directive that empowers superintendents to ban those bottles on a case by case…[more]

Two hundred years ago Dec. 16, the New Madrid Seismic Zone unleashed one of the most powerful earthquakes to shake the lower 48 states – a quake so powerful it caused waterfalls on the Mississippi River, shook houses in Charleston.…[more]

Missouri has not escaped the historic drought that devastated Texas, Oklahoma and Arizona.  A critically-timed two month dry spell has left much of the state’s soil bone dry down to nearly six feet.  Unless there is long…[more]

Everywhere, including the Ozarks, battles rage to eliminate non-native species of animals and plants. In an odd twist, Princeton University researchers found that some invasive species can become essential members of the very same ecosystems threatened by their arrival.

The University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture Center for Food Safety’s expertise in pathogenic bacteria and viruses is being called into service to examine their impact on Beaver Lake swim beaches and to identify the sources of fecal pollution in…[more]