How Safe Is It to Consume Fish from Iowa Waterways? The state of Iowa has a complicated relationship with fishing. On one hand, the state’s Department of Natural Resources encourages fishing, with weekly online reports of Iowa’s Fishing Hotspots, and…
(CEDAR FALLS, Iowa) – Elizabeth Kolbert, a Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer and journalist, will visit the University of Northern Iowa for a public talk and other events on Sept. 20 and 21. A public talk, “An Evening with Pulitzer Prize-winning author…
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This interactive table maps all 1321 PK-12 public school buildings, with a direct link to each building’s Google map, where one can clearly see the school’s proximity to croplands.
We conservatively used the distance of 2000 feet to calculate potentially harmful proximities of croplands to Iowa public school buildings…89.6 percent of Iowa PK-12 public school buildings (1183 of 1321) are within 2000 feet of cropland. This means 444,559 students and teachers in…
The Issue: Pesticide Spray Drift and Dicamba. UPDATE, June 4, 2020: “Court overturns EPA approval of popular herbicide made by Monsanto” UPDATE, Feb. 17, 2020: “Monsanto, BASF Will Pay $250 Million In Punitive Damages In First Dicamba Trial.” As we…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TOM CULLEN TO SPEAK ON HOW HIS NEWSPAPER WON A PULITZER Cullen did reporting behind the Storm Lake Times’ Pulitzer Prize-Winning Editorials Tom Cullen, reporter for the Storm Lake Times, will speak on Sept. 7 at 7:30…