Environment

For a community in the Bluegrass region that values farmland as a key part of its identity, the solar industry knocking on its door presents an opportunity and a potential turning point for its future land use. It’s a scenario that could become more common around the region as President Joe Biden pursues an aggressive clean energy agenda. 

Research shows that indoor radon potential in some areas of Christian County is among the highest in the state.

Owls are very efficient hunters because of several attributes, including their eyesight, hearing and claws — and because of their ability to fly silently.

In early June, a federal court essentially banned sales of dicamba-based herbicides for the next six months, after finding that the Environmental Protection Agency hadn't done its due diligence in 2018 when reauthorizing the chemical until December 2020.

Land Between the Lakes' lead naturalist, John Pollpeter, speaks with WKMS' Tracy Ross about the appropriate steps to take in animal rescue situations.

Markets for buying and selling credits for the right to emit carbon puts a cap on a state's impact on climate change.

Minnesota-based Geronimo Energy plans to lease about 1,000 acres from several property owners to install solar panels.

Launched in 1998 by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and National Audubon Society, the Great Backyard Bird Count was the first online citizen-science project to collect data on wild birds and to display results in near real-time.

The U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Forest Service and the Tennessee Valley Authority will test the method in Smith and Pisgah bays on Kentucky Lake through Feb. 20.

The other two coal-fired units at Paradise were retired in 2017 and replaced by a natural gas plant next to the fossil plant.

Lawmakers approved a $50 million dollar bond issue for the campaign during the 2019 General Assembly. Most of Kentucky’s 17 resorts and 45 parks were built about 50 years ago.

Officials began trapping feral hogs in 2014, but they couldn't keep up with the hogs' rapid reproduction rate; they can have two litters a year with five to 10 piglets, which will themselves be ready to breed in less than a year.