The nature preserve is a “multi-generational advancement to the community, county conversation deputy director says.
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The nature preserve is a “multi-generational advancement to the community, county conversation deputy director says.
U of I partnered with three other universities and the National Science Foundation to study extreme weather in Midwest agriculture
Oversight for C6-Zero’s clean up is completed after the manufacturing plant experienced an explosion and fire in December 2022.
Planting native plants rebuilds natural habitat, supports wildlife
More than 200 Iowans filed complaints last year about drifting agricultural chemicals as erratic weather in late spring and early summer makes it hard for applicators to find time to safely spray.
NextEra Energy plans to build new solar energy generation project near Center Point.
Duane Arnold Solar IV installation will not involve Alliant Energy, unlike their previous projects.
An estimated 40,000 fish are dead on a 20-mile stretch of Crane Creek in Northeast Iowa and the Iowa Department of Natural Resources is trying to figure out what killed them. Area is ‘complex’ with multiple drainage tiles from farms and nearby Readlyn, officials said.
The DNR’s Manchester field office was notified Friday about dead fish in Crane Creek about two miles southwest of Readlyn, according to a news release Monday. Officials don’t yet know what caused the fish kill, but think it originated around 250th Street and Piedmont Avenue.
All parts of Iowa — for the first time in more than four years — have sufficient soil moisture to not be considered “abnormally dry” by national climate experts, according to a U.S. Drought Monitor report released last week.
The Storm Prediction Center has confirmed the storm system produced a derecho that started in central Iowa and swept through Eastern Iowa before moving on to Illinois and Indiana.
Anna Wolverton, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service, said the flooding was “a saving grace” for communities on the middle to lower portions of the Mississippi River that have been stricken with drought over the past several years.
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