DryingUpNewsSeries by MariaA

With half of the country trapped in drought and climate scientists warning of a hotter, drier region west of the Mississippi, Harvest Public Radio and the Kansas News Service collaborated on a look at the far-ranging effects in the Great Plains. Reporters talked to climatologists and ranchers, farmers and water officials to see how the region and its economy have to pivot now and in the next half-century. The project teamed reporters in Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma who found that both subtle and dramatic changes are taking hold across the area where water has always been scarce.