One of the largest fertilizer manufacturing plants in the world sits about six miles southwest of the Polk County hamlet...
Cover Crops Look to be Changing Runoff Dynamics in Kansas
This spring and summer have been exciting months at the Kansas Agricultural Watershed (KAW) Field Research Facility. Nathan Nelson, Professor...
Plan to protect Lake Erie from algae blooms isn’t working, study shows
Farm runoff provides fertilizer that turbo-charges algae growth in the western Lake Erie basin. Wochit (Photo: Brenda Culler, Ohio Department...
Attack of the Killer Algae
Photo: Algal bloom on Lake Erie A roving pack of journalists shake off the rain in a squat, one-story federal...
U.S. rivers are getting saltier, potentially compromising drinking water
photo: Allison Cekala The bomb cyclone that hit the northeastern United States last week left roadways and vehicles caked in...