Environmental News

Iowa Department of Natural Resources Director Kayla Lyon told an appropriations subcommittee Monday the EPA and the DNR are “making progress” to cleaning up the C6-Zero site, where a Dec. 8, 2022, explosion and fire injured nine employees, caused an evacuation of nearby houses and polluted soil and water.

The Nature Call: Ryal Hansen bagged his first deer during the muzzleloader season

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration helped residents map temperatures in the Corridor during one of the hottest days of the summer last year. The results are out.

Two broods — one that emerges every 13 years, and the other that emerges every 17 — will emerge at the same time, something that hasn’t happened in 200 years.

Another leak of chlorinated water into McLoud Run has killed hundreds of fish, the Iowa Department of Natural Resources announced Thursday — the same day it released an order saying the city of Cedar Rapids will pay $22,000 for a fish kill there last year also caused by chlorinated water.

Proponents said the legislation would make housing more affordable, but critics argued it would drive long-term costs higher for taxpayers

Several winter storms have barreled through the Midwest since the start of the year, bringing deep snow and bitter cold. It comes on the heels of several years of drought that has left parts of the Mississippi River basin with rainfall deficits of a foot-plus. As the snowpack grows and melts, it could help restore parched stream flows — but also carries the risk of flooding downstream.

Many of those who think their cars won't charge are new to EVs and don't know how to “precondition” their batteries, said Bruce Westlake, who has two Teslas.