The government is keeping tabs on air quality with a color-coded index as smoke from Canadian wildfires drifts south. The Environmental Protection Agency uses this air quality index to monitor five kinds of air pollutants and rate how clean or polluted the air is across the country. Here’s how to understand the index.
Drifting smoke from the ongoing wildfires across Canada is creating curtains of haze and raising air quality concerns throughout the Great Lakes region, and in Eastern Iowa.
The Nature Call: New bike trail on Sac and Fox is a challenge, just like life with ups and downs and twists and turns
It takes two generations to complete 2,000-mile migration
Arid conditions are expected to persist in eastern Iowa, Missouri, Illinois and Wisconsin.
A 31-mile length of pipe would connect the Absolute Energy ethanol plant near St. Ansgar to Summit’s proposed pipeline network that is to span over 2,000 miles in five states.
Wild Side column: Not a lot of fish were caught on this day, but there was plenty of nature to observe
The company and the Eastern Iowa town have agreed that drilling two new deep wells is the best solution.
The Middle Iowa River watershed management authority spans from Marshall County to Johnson County, for a total of 10 counties, 33 cities and 10 soil and water conservation districts.
The change comes after a shake-up in leadership on the regulatory board. Now two of the three members who will decide on the contentious proposals have been on the board just since May.
Air quality in Cedar Rapids deteriorated from “moderate” to “unhealthy” throughout Thursday morning, according to the Environmental Protection Agency’s Fire and Smoke Map.
The abrupt dryness from flash droughts, like the one that has been occurring in Iowa, come on quickly and can wilt crops and waterways faster than long-term droughts. New research finds the dangerous dry spells will become more common in the future.
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