These ceremonial and burial mounds in Northeast Iowa are one of the densest collections still existing in North America. Today, though, the Mississippi River has significantly eroded the bank they were built on, eating away at some of the mounds at the water's edge.
The invasive insect was first found in Iowa in 2010.
Drought conditions are continuing to spread in Iowa, despite this year starting as the ninth wettest year on record after an unusually rainy spring.
It has been more than 10 months since Wolf Carbon Solutions reported its progress to state regulators, and the company has yet to reapply for a permit in Illinois.
Two Iowa House lawmakers, a Republican and a Democrat, have made it a priority to create new laws that would curb the state’s high rate of cancer. They say it has taken a back seat to other problems.
Researchers said they intend to further study the impact wildlife -- including deer -- have on crops in Iowa.
But the frost should not affect the harvest, unless crops were planted late in the season.
Historians, ecologists talk through Iowa’s environmental history
The Iowa Department of Transportation has awarded about $16.2 million to add 28 fast-charging stations for electric vehicles along Iowa’s interstates, the first awards in the $51 million Iowa expects to receive in federal funds for the stations.
The Nature Call: In search of mourning doves on this outing, the author is thinking of the lost passenger pigeon once abundant in the United States
It might be up to Iowa homeowners to decide whether to replace lead water pipes that go to their houses, despite a new edict from federal regulators.
Within the last 18 months, both turbines on a Cedar County farm have been struck by lightning — and now, one of them twice.
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