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Celia Llopis-Jepsen

Environment Reporter at KCUR-FM (Kansas City, MO)

Host of the nature & environment podcast Up From Dust. | Enviro reporter for the NPR stations of Kansas, aka the @ksnewsservice. Based at KCUR in Kansas City.

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  • 3 weeks ago | kcur.org | Celia Llopis-Jepsen

    Symbiotic fungi are all the rage right now. Farmers want them in their fields, gardeners want them in veggie patches and flowerbeds. The excitement has given rise to a billion-dollar mycorrhizae market, but many products don’t deliver on their promises. Come visit the world’s biggest collection of these fungi to learn what makes them so great — and why you should think twice before buying them.

  • 3 weeks ago | kosu.org | Celia Llopis-Jepsen

    In 1978, David Willard was working at the Field Museum in Chicago when he found out that birds kept slamming into the city’s lakeside convention center. He began checking around McCormick Place for dead birds, and soon realized the extent of the problem. Over the next 40 years, Willard and his colleagues found 40,000 of them at that site. “It’s not a building that I think anybody – when it was built – would predict would be a major bird killer,” said Willard, noting that it isn’t a skyscraper.

  • 3 weeks ago | nebraskapublicmedia.org | Celia Llopis-Jepsen

    The explanation? These cities are situated along a vital migration corridor, said Farnsworth, a co-author on this study and the one about McCormick.

  • 1 month ago | linncountyjournal.com | Celia Llopis-Jepsen

    The federal government has not reimbursed K-State for about $1 million in expenses related to its work on global food security. The cuts also affect hundreds of students abroad who were recruited to advance agriculture in their countries. By Celia Llopis-Jepsen, Kansas News ServiceTwo labs at Kansas State University that work on global food security are scheduled to shut down in less than a month because the Trump administration has cut off funding. K-State will shed about 10 jobs.

  • 1 month ago | ctnewsonline.com | Celia Llopis-Jepsen

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Celia Llopis-Jepsen
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8 Apr 25

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8 Apr 25

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