Environmental News

Wild ducks that are prominent carriers of the highly contagious avian influenza are migrating through Iowa in their greatest numbers this month.

There’s more than what meets the eye at six sites in the Wickiup Hill Natural Area in Toddville — all with a different story unique to the people who lived there thousands of years before Iowa was discovered by European-American settlers.

The public will being seeing seedlings as post-derecho plans take root at the historic Cedar Rapids Brucemore estate.

A 2021 law change that allows Iowa to fine farmers when weedkiller — particularly dicamba — drifts to neighbors’ fields is on hold, at least until later this year, as the state develops new rules for private and commercial applicators.

Zoos across North America -- including the one in Des Moines -- are moving their birds indoors and away from people and wildlife as they try to protect them from the highly contagious and potentially deadly bird flu.

The Fontana Herb Society host a program about the stewardship of honeybees on April 7, and its annual plant sale on May 7, both at Fontana Park in Hazleton.

For more than a week, the pelicans have been swimming in and flying around the Iowa River as far south as Terry Trueblood Recreation Area all the way north to the Coralville Lake.

The federal agency that monitors pipeline safety needs to update its rules for carbon dioxide pipelines given plans for 3,000 miles of new CO2 pipelines across Iowa and other Midwestern states, according to a new report.