Despite deploying thousands of tests and running samples, researchers still haven’t determined why so many white oak trees across Iowa have died.
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Despite deploying thousands of tests and running samples, researchers still haven’t determined why so many white oak trees across Iowa have died.
Time has run out on a short-term plan to continue funding a network of sensors that monitors the water quality in Iowa’s rivers and streams. Unless new funding can be secured, dozens of sensors will be taken offline next year, eliminating the ability to measure nitrate and phosphorus to see if conservation practices are working.
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The Nature Conservancy has studied this form of virtual fencing with cattle at its preserve in Muscatine County for the past three years.
To a gathering of residents in Dubuque this week, David Cwiertny, director of the Center for Health Effects of Environmental Contamination at the University of Iowa, said there is “no such thing as risk-free water.”
Experts say earthquakes in Iowa rare, but not impossible.
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Director Marty Lenss said the nonprofit’s goal is to expand their work into other airports in the Mississippi watershed
The Iowa Department of Natural Resources conducts a roadside survey of pheasant each August and this year’s survey shows pheasant populations are at a 20-year high.
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Two-thirds of Iowa’s state park beaches faced “swimming not recommended” advisories at least once this summer, with heavy rains fueling higher bacteria levels that pushed advisories to their highest rate in a decade, according to state monitoring officials and data.
Iowa State University’s Iowa Mosquito Surveillance Program has been running since the 1960s, but only a handful of counties have their own surveillance programs in place to monitor insect populations and test for West Nile virus.
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