We moved from Iowa to Oregon after floods devastated our hometown. It was a hard move, but we don't regret it.
In 2008, my husband, Adam, and I decided to move to Oregon after cataclysmic flooding devastated eastern Iowa. Many suffered, ...
Iowa Public Radio6h
Trump funding freeze could leave communities on their own as climate threats grow
Without federal support, American communities will struggle to deal with a challenge as pervasive as climate change, market ...
Investigate Midwest2d
Fertilizer use drives the majority of Iowa’s agricultural greenhouse gas emissions
Iowa’s farmlands are hotbeds for greenhouse gases, with nitrous oxide accounting for 59% of agricultural emissions in 2022.
The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier5d
Bill would remove climate change from state consideration
DES MOINES — The state, under a bill advanced Wednesday in the Iowa House, would no longer have the declared purpose of ...
The Gazette9d
New law puts focus on Mississippi River flooding and climate extremes
Flood control along the Mississippi River is a central piece of a newly passed federal law — work that advocates believe is ...
Iowa Utilities Commission couldn't consider climate change in pipeline decisions, bill says
An Iowa bill would forbid the Iowa Utilities Commission from considering climate change when ruling on whether to grant a ...
Yahoo12d
Addressing the removal of ‘climate change’ from the Iowa Science Standards | Letters
We climate science experts at the University of Iowa strongly advise Iowa’s Department of Education to maintain its existing educational standards on climate change. Climate change and human ...
Quad-City Times6d
Bill would remove climate change from state consideration
saying the Iowa Department of Natural Resources notes the state is already experiencing the effects of climate change from increased precipitation that’s led to record flooding, higher ...