It’s a first for the Central Iowa Water Works, which is worried about maintaining compliance with EPA nitrate standards.

Unlike traditional nuclear rivalries where both sides possess declared arsenals – like India and Pakistan, which despite ...

Nitrate levels in Iowa's Raccoon River are at their highest since 2013. Lawn watering ban is trying to prevent more restrictions and keep water safe.

Three new proposed chemical plants could more than quadruple ammonia production in the Donaldsonville area, leaving Ascension ...

NOAA is forecasting this summer's Gulf of America (formerly Gulf of Mexico) "dead zone" to be average-sized, covering ...

Military officials say one soldier was killed and another was injured in a helicopter training incident at Fort Campbell in Kentucky. The 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) said Thursday that ...

An aromatic tree with scale-like evergreen leaves, the Eastern red cedar is well-known for its tolerance to wind, heat, and ...

In the twilight depths of the Gulf of Mexico, about as deep down as a football field is long, U.S. Navy divers carefully snip small branches of corals with gloved hands. Their voices crackle through ...

A mysterious, brown foam appeared on a beach an hour south of Adelaide. It was just the beginning of a toxic algal bloom that has now grown to thousands of square kilometres in size, killing precious ...

An update of Louisiana's strategy to help reduce the low-oxygen “dead zone” in the Gulf of Mexico is being criticized ... which help form the large low-oxygen zone in the Gulf every summer.

Did you know there's a massive "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico? No, we're not talking about the 1983 sci-fi horror film, or the early 2000s sci-fi TV series. This one is very much real.

A recently released forecast predicted a larger-then-normal dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico this summer. The dead zone, or hypoxic area, is an area in a body of water with low oxygen that can be ...