In a changing climate, when extreme heat spells may come more frequently, no air conditioning could be problematic.
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In a changing climate, when extreme heat spells may come more frequently, no air conditioning could be problematic.
The cost of building an artificial intelligence product like ChatGPT can be hard to measure. But one thing Microsoft-backed OpenAI needed for its technology was plenty of water, pulled from the watershed of the Raccoon and Des Moines rivers in central Iowa to cool a powerful supercomputer as it helped teach its AI systems how to mimic human writing.
The Iowa Department of Natural Resources has sued C6-Zero for $1.5 million the state paid toward environmental cleanup and equipment replacement after a Dec. 8 explosion and fire in Marengo.
Augsburg University's River Semester program sends students, sailing, paddling and camping along one of the nation's most famous waterways.
The lake, created in 1958 by damming the Iowa River as a flood-control measure, is slowly filling with silt and sand. Sedimentation reduces recreational opportunities and can harm water quality.
Over the 15 weeks of testing, there were 104 swim advisories because of high levels of E. coli and 19 advisories for toxins from algae.
The Gazette spoke with a National Weather Service meteorologist about recent hot spells and the potential for more.
Sagging ears just short of maturity, cobs half bare of kernels as if nibbled, earth so dry that deep cracks crisscross the fields: The U.S. corn harvest is in trouble.
Falconers — who use falcons to hunt — and researchers have worked together to restore their populations throughout the Midwest.
As a whole, the state is drier than it’s been in more than a month. Iowa averaged less than a third of its normal rainfall last week, and high temperatures have hovered above 90 degrees since last weekend.
Birding: Birds attract lots of visitors with rare stop in Eastern Iowa
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