Pollution from industrial agriculture is one of the main contributors to the impairment of hundreds of river and lake segments across Iowa.

DNR staff collected water samples from the site and will continue to investigate the spill. Creek users downstream of the event are advised to avoid the creek.

The Iowa Department of Natural Resources is investigating after an unknown amount of chemicals were spilled into a creek that ...

Drought conditions in northwest, western, and central Iowa improved in March thanks to above-average rainfall, according to ...

Rich Gradoville visits the steams near his home in Johnston, not for fishing or recreating, but to test the nitrate ...

A bill shielding pesticide manufacturers from lawsuits joined a long list of casualties of the Iowa Legislature’s second “funnel” deadline. But the bill cutoff has left lawmakers closer to ...

The National Academies’ report says it’s a virtual construct that “mimics the structure, context, and behavior of a natural, engineered or social system.” It says a digital twin is regularly updated ...

has partnered with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) to enhance habitats in Wapello County. According to a press release from the NWTF, the group is assisting the DNR with a ...

Joe Bischoff, Barr Engineering, explains an excess of iron-bound phosphorus in Green Valley Lake during Wednesday's DNR public meeting. (CNA photo by NICK PAULY) Green Valley Lake will be receiving a ...

The Iowa Department of Natural Resources announced Friday the source of dark, murky water in a drainage ditch near the North Raccoon River was identified as a mistaken dumping of wastewater from a ...

according to the latest data from the Iowa Department of Natural Resources. There are more than 4,400 campsites across Iowa's state parks, recreation areas, and forests, according to the Iowa ...

(Photo by Eric Morken) Des Moines — The Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is offering a six-month workshop to teach skills needed to hunt, field dress and cook white-tailed deer to ...