AI will help analyze recordings of the mammals’ clicks
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AI will help analyze recordings of the mammals’ clicks
A woman was bitten and attacked by a coyote Monday while walking on the University of Iowa campus. It’s the first recorded case of a coyote attacking a person in Iowa in more than 20 years, according to the Iowa Department of Natural Resources.
NEW Co.’s accidental release of of 265,000 gallons of nitrogen-based fertilizer from a facility in Red Oak killed 750,000 fish in the East Nishnabotna. The case is an ‘extreme outlier’ among fertilizer spills and one that calls for a larger penalty than the maximum $10,000 that can be enforced by regulators, an Iowa DNR attorney said.
Inspired by COVID-19 rapid tests, a Minnesota startup developed a kit that amplifies the DNA of a fungus spreading among oaks weakened by drought. The Iowa Department of Natural Resources hopes to use information gathered from these kits to isolate infected trees.
An Orange Alert rally will be held on Sunday
A 2023 state report determined most of Iowa’s state parks have restrooms, shelters and cabins that are not accessible to people with disabilities.
The Library of Congress has named an Iowa book of essays about agricultural pollution to a list of 56 “Great Reads” for 2024.
It’s rare for the DNR to ask the AG’s office to step in on enforcement. And the Environmental Protection Commission, a nine-person, governor-appointed board that oversees environmental polices at the DNR, doesn’t always follow staff recommendations.
Most of the smoke was expected to linger over Minnesota, Wisconsin and northern Michigan, but some could drift as far south as Iowa and Chicago, leaving skies looking milky by late Tuesday or early Wednesday, according to the National Weather Service.
Nitrate contamination of Iowa’s rivers has surged in recent weeks amid heavy, widespread rainfall, according to data collected by the Iowa Water Quality Information System.
Utilities looking to finish building a high-voltage power line linking Iowa and Wisconsin completed a contentious land deal Thursday that allows them to build on a Mississippi River federal wildlife refuge.
Most of the lingering drought is in the eastern half of the state, where a vast expanse of formerly extreme dryness is subsiding.
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