Articles Tagged: Climate change

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service selected two Iowa projects for the funds, which stem from the Inflation Reduction Act

William Gutowski, an Iowa State University professor of meteorology, has worked with climate models for decades to study climate change

Twenty students will be selected to develop a community project that builds climate resiliency in local communities.

The climate is changing — but there’s still time to adapt, assessment authors said.

Commissioner Doug Ommen says consumers can take preventative steps to protect themselves against the pressures caused by the exploding cost of reinsurance.

Iowa ranks No. 4 in the United States for its crop insurance payouts due to drought and excess moisture.

$5B nationwide investment includes over $400M for Iowa

Five Eastern Iowa counties — including Linn and Johnson — are teaming up to use $2 million in federal money to create a climate action plan for the region.

A project producing hydrogen that involved Iowa operations did not make the cut.

The 2023 Iowa Climate Statement issued Tuesday focuses on benefits of solar and how to make it thrive in the state.

A look at Iowa’s most extreme weather and how records are determined and recorded.

A fifth of reported heat-related deaths between 2017 and 2022 were agricultural workers, according to OSHA data. Academics, occupational health specialists and advocacy groups are calling attention to the under-reported impact of climate change on this group from heatwaves.

A Tama town hall Tuesday was her 29th town hall since being elected to Congress in 2020, and her ninth in-person town hall this year.

Floodplain forests play a pivotal role in the Mississippi River ecosystem – creating wildlife habitat, improving water quality, storing carbon and slowing flooding. But they’re disappearing faster as high water from longer-lasting floods soaks the trees more than they can stand. With funding available, the challenge is finding the right solution before things get much worse.

A hot summer and dry spring have brought drought to a large part of the Midwest. The situation highlights the complexity of exiting drought when a state or region can slip into it relatively easily. Rainfall across parts of the Midwest in recent weeks is helpful, but it may not be enough to alleviate the dryness.