Tests of drinking water from six public water systems along the Mississippi River in Iowa show detectable levels of two types of industrial chemicals believed to harm human health, new results show.
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Tests of drinking water from six public water systems along the Mississippi River in Iowa show detectable levels of two types of industrial chemicals believed to harm human health, new results show.
After evicting park rangers from Iowa’s state parks, the Iowa Department of Natural Resources said it will continue to require live-in staff at fish hatcheries because they have a “live product.”
The Iowa Department of Natural Resources’ housing policy adopted in 2007 shows a shift in the agency’s perceived value of live-in park rangers and other staff at Iowa state parks.
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University of Iowa investigators over the weekend flew to Alaska for a three-week mission to better understand a rarely viewed type of aurora — also known as Northern Lights — that flashes or “pulsates.”
Iowa has more impaired waters now than two years ago, with bacteria and fish kills being the top reasons for listing, according to the state’s 2022 draft inventory.
America's coastline will see sea levels rise in the next 30 years by as much as they did in the entire 20th century, with major Eastern cities hit regularly with costly floods even on sunny days, a government report warns.
The American West’s megadrought deepened so much last year that it is now the driest in at least 1,200 years and is a worst-case climate change scenario playing out live, a new study finds.
Large numbers of geese and pelicans have been found dead along the Mississippi River in eastern Iowa, and wildlife biologists aren’t sure what’s killing them.
The majority of state park staff being asked to move out of state-owned houses said the parks will be less safe and the public will have fewer services with no live-in rangers, managers and technicians.
The Iowa Department of Natural Resources is evicting park rangers and other staff from state-owned houses in 23 state parks because the agency doesn’t want to pay up to $1 million on repairs.
Even when the fish aren’t biting, remember advice from a friend: “You came here to fish, right”
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