Iowa updates its strategy to reduce nutrient runoff
Iowa’s nutrient reduction strategy was developed in 2013 as part of a larger, 12-state task force to address the growing size ...
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Reaching Gulf dead zone reduction goals will cost $7 billion, study finds
New research on the cost of reducing the Gulf of Mexico’s dead zone places a $7 billion dollar annual price tag on reaching ...
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Reaching Gulf dead zone reduction goals will cost $7B, study finds
New research on the cost of reducing the Gulf of Mexico’s dead zone places a $7 billion dollar annual price tag on reaching ...
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Critical Mississippi River issues targeted
Flood control along the Mississippi River is a central piece of a newly passed federal law –work that advocates believe is ...
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Anna's Thinking Cap: Iowa’s 99, the Mississippi River counties | Column
Our journey through Iowa’s 99 counties began in January with a visit to Kossuth County in the north, which is not the only location named after Lajos Kossuth, Hungary’s freedom fighter during ...
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Here’s what it would cost to shrink the Gulf’s dead zone by 45%
A coalition of researchers from West Virginia University, Iowa State University and the Texas Soil and Water Research Laboratory has determined that decreasing nitrogen runoff from agriculture in the ...
Examining the economic impacts of aquatic dead zones
A West Virginia University researcher is working to understand and estimate environmental cleanup costs associated with agricultural runoff that causes polluted "dead zones" in downstream coastal ...
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The ‘Six Sovereigns’ are fighting for the Columbia River basin’s future. Who are they?
One of the longest rivers in America, it is second only to the Mississippi in terms ... “You can have salmon and agriculture.” The Columbia River basin’s status as an indisputable powerhouse ...
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Anna's Thinking Cap: Iowa’s 99, the Mississippi River counties | Column
Our journey through Iowa’s 99 counties began in January with a visit to Kossuth County in the north, which is not the only location named after Lajos Kossuth, Hungary’s freedom fighter during the ...
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Farmers want new tech and St. Louis is the ‘powerhouse’ to innovate it
For most non-farm folks, technology and farming exist in two separate worlds. But, that’s not the case according to a number ...
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The Lower Mississippi River’s largest ecosystem restoration project got the federal go-ahead. The next hurdle: funding
A first-of-its-kind project seeking to restore river ecosystems along 39 miles of the Lower Mississippi River has federal ...
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Tracing nitrogen pollution in the Gulf
A study led by Boston College researchers clarifies how nitrogen is delivered to the Gulf, and could inform policies to help protect it ...