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Farmers till their land to prepare soil for planting, but a new study published in the journal “Earth’s Future” found topsoil in the Midwest is eroding on average nearly 2 millimeters per year.
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Charity Nebbe talks to landscape ecologist and MacArthur Genius Lisa Schulte Moore, of ISU, about prairie strips and bringing together agriculture and ecology.
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Lisa Schulte Moore is a professor at Iowa State University and, as of last month, a MacArthur genius. She talked about her work and the honor on River to River.
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Human-induced climate change is posing an ever-greater threat to our future. So what are we going to do about it?
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The Nature Conservancy in Iowa is doing its annual roundup of bison Tuesday at Broken Kettle Grasslands Preserve in northwest Iowa.
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April is upon us, and Iowa is beginning to bloom. On this horticulture day edition of Talk of Iowa, host Charity Nebbe is joined by Iowa State University…
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On a still November day, Patrick O’Neal, the burn coordinator at Kansas State University’s Konza Prairie Biological Station near Manhattan, Kansas,…
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Farmers and landowners enrolling acres in the U.S Department of Agriculture’s Conservation Reserve Program have a new practice available to them.Areas of…
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An environmental group has bought a vast property in western Iowa’s Loess Hills. The purchase will allow them to preserve native prairie.Some of Iowa’s…
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There was a time when tallgrass prairie once covered about 85 percent of Iowa. Today, tallgrass prairie is one of the most altered and threatened…