The Raccoon River weaves past downtown Des Moines. One of the primary drinking water sources for the region, the river has high nitrate levels that have led to water restrictions for some 600,000 ...

BARDWELL, Ky. — Red, yellow and purple flowers reach up past Joel Reddick’s knees and stretch across his family’s farm in Carlisle County, teeming with bees, birds and other life. He walks through the ...

Nearly a year ago, plans to turn some not-terribly-productive farmland into a wetland were announced as a pilot project. Now, deep-rooted grasses and plants friendly to bees and butterflies are ...

Farms make up three-fourths of Illinois’ land area, and excess fertilizer application and loose soil are significant contributors to nutrient pollution. Farmers have been encouraged to adopt voluntary ...

ST. LOUIS — The nation’s rivers and streams remain stubbornly polluted with nutrients that contaminate drinking water and fuel a gigantic dead zone for aquatic life in the Gulf of Mexico, according to ...

Building on a successful water quality partnership, Water UCI has been awarded $1.39 million from the Cyrus Tang Foundation for a three-year research initiative to combat agricultural and urban runoff ...

Picture this: You turn on your tap for a glass of water. Clear, clean, safe. That's what you expect, right? Here's the thing though. S. have drinking water that has tested positive for PFAS, those ...

For decades, the states that are part of the Chesapeake Bay watershed have struggled with the question of who's responsible for the environmental health of the nation's largest estuary. Earlier this ...

Any attempt to set stringent regulations on runoff pollution would “get a lot of pushback, to put it mildly,” he said. Farmer outreach and government incentives for conservation practices have instead ...