The Trump administration has announced a new research program to help us better understand microplastics. Let’s break down what it means.

Congressman was warned by state senator at Newton event that Democrats will make water quality a big issue for midterm election

“I think we need to rethink agriculture,” the professor-turned-advocate tells Sentient.

News on August 25 reported Sheriff Mike Naig unholstering his squirt gun yet again to apply a gentle mist onto the raging inferno that is Iowa’s water quality and overall environmental condition.

Roughly $400,000 in the $1m budget was for public awareness – but those funds were recently ‘zeroed out’

By Carey Gillam When a team of scientists embarked two years ago on a $1 million landmark study of Iowa’s persistent water quality problems, they knew that the findings would be important to share. B...

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MESKWAKI SETTLEMENT — As event moderator Tommy Hexter asked the 20 or so people in attendance for Wednesday night’s listening session how many of them had been affected by cancer in one way or another...

It isn’t often that over 1,000 Iowans will gather on a summer’s Monday evening to learn about nitrogen, phosphorous and water. Something is in the air. People filled Sheslow Auditorium at …

Toss some bags at agricultural policy... why ethanol might be our biggest mistake... and what a progressive water policy might look like.

Less than a year after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency added segments of five Iowa rivers to the impaired waters list for nitrate, the same agency — now operating under the Trump administrati...

Iowa Board of Regent-controlled universities are now required to teach controversial topics “in a manner that fosters critical thinking and avoids indoctrination of one perspective” under a new board ...

Secretary of Agriculture is one of seven executive offices Iowans see on their off-year voting ballot.

Pesticides are part of why Iowa’s fields are so productive. Research into pesticide exposure also connects them to our cancer crisis.

IDALS is beginning construction  on 18 water quality and nitrate reduction projects in Tama and Grundy counties.

Editor’s note: The following was written by Richard Roth, Iowa State University assistant professor and Extension nitrogen science and soil fertility specialist, and Sotirios Archontoulis, professor o...

Michigan has become a leader in safe drinking water after the Flint crisis, but mobile home parks remain a rough spot.

When climate technology breaks down, the results can be deadly.

Chris Jones, in a new letter, rebuts a guest essay's assertions about the causes of unsafe water in Iowa.

Chris Jones, in a new letter, rebuts a guest essay's assertions about the causes of unsafe water in Iowa.

How Watershed Work Protects Our Future

Why Wendell Berry, Michael Pollan, and other slow-food-loving locavores are wrong about food in America—and why Waffle House can save us all  The food ind...

The USDA has become an inefficient monster that often promotes products that are bad for consumers and the environment. Let’s replace it with a Department of Food.

The North Raccoon River routinely has elevated levels of nitrate contamination.   Buy Photo Thanks in large part to nitrate …

Des Moines, Iowa (RI) — Governor Kim Reynolds says the state and federal government should stick with the voluntary approach to reducing farm chemical runoff into Iowa waterways. A report […]

“Ovarian cancer in particular ... doesn't have great survival,” said one researcher. “Anything we can do to better understand the environmental causes can help us with prevention.”

“Ovarian cancer in particular ... doesn't have great survival,” said one researcher. “Anything we can do to better understand the environmental causes can help us with prevention.”

A long-awaited scientific report commissioned by Polk County says farm pollution threatens the ability to drink clean water and to safely interact with central Iowa streams, Iowa Capital Dispatch has ...