Yet agriculture runoff is a major environmental problem for the wider Great Lakes region. Nitrates and phosphorus act as a fuel for the dangerous algae bloom growth that’s increasingly common in the ...
A West Virginia University researcher is working to understand and estimate environmental cleanup costs associated with ...
The Central Ground Water Board report attributes the rising uranium levels to leaching from agricultural land. Intensive use ...
The Iowa Nutrient Reduction Strategy was updated and IDALs announced a precision ag-tool to optimize nitrogen application.
Water is a fundamental resource for life, yet it is increasingly under threat from pollution caused by human activities. From ...
Industrial agriculture damages soil through practices that deplete its organic matter and degrade its structure. The result is farmland that needs heavy doses of fertilizer to be productive, is prone ...
After analyzing over a decade worth of data from Wisconsin, researchers found that heavy rainfall significantly increases ammonia and phosphorus runoff, with spikes occurring immediately after ...
New research on the cost of reducing the Gulf of Mexico’s dead zone places a $7 billion dollar annual price tag on reaching ...
Large farms would have to report their fertilizer use under a bill being considered by the Oregon Legislature. The goal, the ...
A southwest Georgia couple who argued a massive solar array next door to their property repeatedly sent muddy runoff onto their ... and bolstering new agricultural and conservation opportunities ...