Shaw Nature Reserve

Your kids can trade monkey bars for climbing trees at these Missouri parks — and launch infinite adventures.

In Missouri, agriculture, urban development and man-made flood control measures have replaced 87% of the state’s original wetlands.

On a Peace in the Prairie trip, young Black artists have the chance to engage with nature.

The Missouri Botanical Garden has partnered with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to track and research bats in the region since 2017.

In recent decades, climate change has shifted when Missouri wildflowers bloom. Once-forgotten data found in the archives of the Missouri Botanical Garden have become a springboard for St. Louis scientists studying how climate change may affect the survival of native plants in the future.

March 3 is the United Nations’ annual commemoration of World Wildlife Day, a time to highlight the importance of Earth’s natural resources and call for…

Even as an especially wintry winter continues to make itself known across the St. Louis region, spring is more and more on residents’ minds – and will…

A group of Franklin County residents have halted plans to build a concrete plant near the Shaw Nature Reserve. Concerned residents appealed a 2016 Circuit…

While the Ozarks are known for forests, but visitors to the highland region also will find open, desert-like areas between trees that contain a special…

Among the many ways rising global temperatures are changing the environment, from shrinking polar ice caps to rising sea levels, research in recent years…