Environmental News

Seven Iowans have appealed state regulators’ decision to grant a water use permit to an 11,600-head northeast Iowa cattle feedlot.

Department of Natural Resources fisheries management biologist Mark Flammang describes the fast-growing, hard-fighting hybrid striped bass that are thrilling anglers and tearing up their tackle at Rathbun Lake and several other Iowa reservoirs as “the common man’s trophy fish.”

The Iowa Department of Natural Resources last month awarded Carroll the Brass Bluegill award from its Fish Iowa! program. The award has been presented every year since 1996 to an outstanding local program.

The Iowa Department of Natural Resources has fined a northwest Iowa dairy owner the maximum $10,000 penalty for releasing 376,000 gallons of manure into a creek from a new anaerobic digester that hadn't been properly sealed or certified.

A Cedar Rapids landscaping company has partnered with a team of former Iowa State University researchers to sell a climate-friendly additive to fertilizer that some experts tout as key to soil rejuvenation and carbon sequestration. It may also help with water quality.

They’re monitoring wind gusts and rains as the storms creep into Minnesota and Iowa by Tuesday evening.

Summer in Iowa is prime time to get outdoors and hike, swim, boat, fish or garden. The Gazette’s Erin Jordan is starting an Environment & Outdoors newsletter to share stories about Iowa’s natural environment and the things that impact it.

The report, released last month, shows increasingly wetter conditions in the Upper Mississippi River over the past few decades, a trend that — spurred by climate change and land-use practices — looks likely to continue.