Environment

The president opened a climate summit by announcing that the United States will aim to cut its greenhouse gas emissions in half, based on 2005 levels, by the end of the decade.

When it rains on Joe Rothermel’s central Illinois farm, most of the water drains into the nearby East Branch Embarras River. There, it begins a journey...

When countries like China buy soybeans and grain, that journey might start in a port in the land-locked state of Oklahoma. Farmers in states like Kansas...

The Biden administration is fighting climate change, in part, by pushing for cars and trucks to be more fuel efficient and reduce emissions, but so far,...

Host Charity Nebbe speaks with Kevin Mason of Waldorf University about his summer research trip to create a comparative environmental history of Iowa.

Levees protect people, towns, and agriculture from flooding. But two years ago, parts of the Missouri River and its tributaries reached record crests,...

Farmers along the Missouri River won a mass action federal lawsuit last December against the Army Corps of Engineers for land damages they say are...

EPA Administrator Michael Regan says the nation's water infrastructure needs to be "stronger and more resilient to face the climate change impacts that we are seeing right here right now."

Host Charity Nebbe gets all the latest eagle news from the Raptor Resource Project in Decorah.

Host Charity Nebbe speaks with Chad Pregracke of Living Lands and Waters about his new proposal for a National Park along and across the Mississippi River.