Iowa Rep. Austin Baeth, D-Des Moines, talks about House Democrats' legislative proposals to improve Iowa's water quality ...

Plastic pollution is everywhere—including where you would least expect it, especially when it's in tiny particle form. Today, ...

The state’s environmental agency has the authority to investigate and issue fines for illegal spills, but lacks sufficient ...

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Companies are integrating artificial Intelligence into all aspects of work and are now doing the same to life.

With many rivers and aquifers tapped beyond their limits, U.N. scientists say the world is entering an era of 'water ...

A northwest Oregon town is stepping up testing of the river that supplies some of its drinking water, prompted by InvestigateWest’s reporting that a local wood treater released stormwater tainted with ...

As Kansas City positions itself as a data center hub, it begs the question: what are the potential consequences?

Iowa adopted a so-called Nutrient Reduction Strategy in 2013 that relied on voluntary agricultural measures; today, more than ...

Some water bodies look like they belong in an Instagram tourism reel, until you discover why you don't see social media posts ...

Florida has more than 2 million septic systems, writes environmental scientist Iuliia Istratiy, and the runoff from them has become one of the state’s most persistent polluters.

The world is facing irreversible water "bankruptcy", with billions of people struggling to cope with the consequences of ...