Wild Side column: A monarch tale
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Wild Side column: A monarch tale
Jane Goodall, the conservationist renowned for her groundbreaking chimpanzee field research and globe-spanning environmental advocacy, has died. She was 91.
As researchers behind an Iowa water quality sensor program race to find a new funding source before money runs out and they’re forced to pull the sensors from the state’s rivers and streams, a nonprofit has launched a crowdsource campaign to try to keep the program afloat.
This feature at Pinicon Ridge Park in Linn County is one of a growing number in Iowa meant to assist in aquatic migration.
Fishing column: A ‘no expectation’ day yielded many fish
Although the Great Lakes and oceans come to mind when thinking of watery grandeur, Marion and Rick Patterson’s recent visit to the Land Between the Lakes in Kentucky and Tennessee helped them comprehend how two massive reservoirs link to an interconnection of rivers, oceans and lakes spanning much of the United States.
After months of no detections, Iowa wildlife officials have seen an uptick in cases of avian influenza this month. Most recently, bird flu was confirmed in Canada geese at two locations in Dubuque County.
In what they are calling a “two-birds-one-stone” approach, researchers at Iowa State University have been exploring whether filling abandoned fossil fuel wells with a “bio-oil” produced from organic material could remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Dozens of metrics are used to determine drought, which can make it complicated to measure and track. The new government dashboard makes it easier to track drought across the Mississippi River Basin.
An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.3 rocked the San Francisco Bay Area early Monday, waking up many people, with more 24,000 saying they felt it, according to the United States Geological Survey.
It’s the first of several that the Nishnabotna Water Defenders, a nonprofit advocating for water quality in southwest Iowa, plans to install.
To carry out the mission of working with their hands, Trappist Monks in Dubuque County focus on conservation, forestry and making caskets.
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