Before 40 of the creatures were released into the Neosho River in September, the snapping turtle breed was not seen in the Kansas wild since 1991. But a reintroduction program by the Kansas ...

The Neosho River is a stream of the Arkansas River in eastern Kansas and northeastern Oklahoma running about 463 miles long and is part of the Mississippi River watershed. The alligator snapping ...

On a warm morning last April, several hundred people fanned out along a waterway in Kansas City. In the span of a few hours, they collected about 30 tons of garbage along the Blue River.

TOPEKA (KSNT) – Biologists are on the front lines of a battle on and beneath the Kansas River to take two invasive species down a peg. Conservationists and members of the Kansas Department of ...

He’s part of a volunteer group that helps clean up the Kansas River. The hot tub is lodged in the river bottom, and it’s too large to lug away. It pops into view during dry spells, when the ...

Dozens of people gathered for a talk about how climate change affects the Kansas River on Thursday, April 3, 2025. A river’s health has big downstream effects on the people and places that rely ...

More than six months after their first reintroduction into Kansas waterways, the alligator snapping turtles seem to be settling into their new home. Before 40 of the creatures were released into ...