Rangers at Iowa’s 69 state parks all will gradually be classified as conservation officers assigned to one or more counties, rather than assigned to a specific state park or parks, the Iowa Department of Natural Resources confirmed.
The Iowa Cancer Registry is expanding the way staff investigate whether the environment — air, water, chemicals in a workplace — might be causing cancer. In a reversal of the traditional process, researchers will start with a location with known contamination and see if people are sick nearby.
There was significant rainfall in the past week across the northwest half of the state, helped reverse drought conditions that have been pestering Iowa for more than three years. But a swath of northeast Iowa remains in “extreme drought.“
It is the biggest fish kill in Iowa in at least a decade and the fifth-largest on record, according to state data.
An equipment failure at the city’s wastewater plant lift station caused the sewage to flow into a storm drain leading to the river, the Iowa DNR reported.
A federal judge has temporarily blocked plans by American Transmission Company, ITC Midwest and Dairyland Power Cooperative to build a high-voltage power line across a Mississippi River wildlife refuge.
This season, the last of the ice that typically persists on the upper Mississippi River through the start of spring had melted and was floating downstream at the end of February. Many described the winter conditions as something they’d never experienced before. But as climate change continues to progress, it could become familiar.
Changing winter conditions are forcing producers to adapt their processes and products for making maple syrup. One northeast Iowa maple syrup producer tapped his trees in January, 22 days earlier than ever before.
Changes made by Summit Carbon Solutions to its pipeline route in North Dakota include avoiding areas where landslides are likely to occur.
The Environmental Protection Agency on Monday announced a comprehensive ban on asbestos, a carcinogen that is still used in some chlorine bleach, brake pads and other products and that kills more than 40,000 deaths in the U.S. each year.
Mayors from 10 states along the Mississippi River flew to Washington, D.C. earlier this month to lobby for funding to protect and restore one of the world’s most important working rivers.
Landfills in two Minnesota counties are experimenting with methods of containing “forever chemicals” in an effort to keep them out of groundwater and lakes.
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