algae

The simple river-cleaning tactics that big farms ignore

Ione Cleverley wasn’t eager to break up with her tenant, who had been farming 88 acres of her central Iowa…

7 years ago

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…

7 years ago

Simple River-Cleaning Tactics That Big Farms Ignore

Iowa is the largest corn producer in the U.S.—and the second largest producer of nitrate pollution in the Mississippi River…

7 years ago

A look at farm runoff and the worsening algae plague

Algae floats on the surface of Lake Erie's Maumee Bay in Oregon, Ohio, on Friday, Sept. 15, 2017. Chemicals and…

7 years ago

Easy Fix: How to Stop Poisoning Fish in the Gulf of Mexico

Saturated buffer along unnamed tributary to the Skunk River, Iowa. Photo by Kent Heikens USDA, Agricultural Research Service. Fertilizer used…

7 years ago