A first-of-its-kind project seeking to restore river ecosystems along 39 miles of the Lower Mississippi River has federal ...
Iowa’s nutrient reduction strategy was developed in 2013 as part of a larger, 12-state task force to address the growing size ...
New research on the cost of reducing the Gulf of Mexico’s dead zone places a $7 billion dollar annual price tag on reaching ...
Peat bogs sequester a massive amount of the Earth’s carbon dioxide. But even as scientists work to better understand bogs’ ...
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 ...
About 80% of forest habitat along the river has been converted to agricultural use ... the fish as a key component of the Mississippi River basin’s strategy to control invasive carp.
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 ...
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 ...
Flood control along the Mississippi River is a central piece of a newly passed federal law –work that advocates believe is ...
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 ...