Extreme weather spurred by climate change, including droughts and heavy rains, may increase the risk of nitrates from ...

Climate-driven extreme weather conditions, such as droughts and intense precipitation, may be accelerating the pace at which ...

Some words may be mispronounced. Iowa needs to cut the amount of nitrate in five rivers — including the Cedar River — because ...

Iowa’s major urban drinking water supplies are contaminated with levels of toxic nitrates, linked to cancer, that exceed ...

EPA says parts of Des Moines, Raccoon, Iowa, Cedar and S. Skunk rivers should be added to Iowa's impaired waters list because ...

Several Kansas counties are seeing a dramatic increase in groundwater contamination. The region’s nitrate pollution comes ...

A UC Davis study reveals that extreme weather, such as heavy rains following droughts, rapidly pushes nitrates from ...

Groups from Iowa and several other states have asked the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to invoke its emergency ...

Greenpeace says it is deeply concerned about levels of nitrate in rural school drinking water, as a shocking new report has revealed that rural children are twice as likely as the average New ...

With nitrate levels creeping upward regionally, utilities watch their wells closely. When drinking water becomes too contaminated, they have to take action. If they don’t have the infrastructure ...