WEST DES MOINES — Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig announced Monday the state agriculture department invested in 14 urban water quality projects, including one that backs up to the historic Jordan House where he spoke. The project in West Des Moines will add bioretention cells, or rain gardens, native plants and a stormwater wetland […]
An Indonesian soldier gives a thumbs up as he crosses a rice field on a combine harvester in remote Papua, where a government food security mega-project has raised fears of mass deforestation.
The Guy Grover Timber and Tree Plantings area was donated to the Buchanan County Conservation Board in 2011. The property is located approxima…
The Trump administration aims to remove degradation of habitat from its definition of "harm" to endangered species, proposing Wednesday a rule change that would open the door to human activity in ecologically sensitive environments.
In a drought-hit Mexican border region at the center of growing competition with the United States for water, conservationists are working to bring a once-dying river delta back to life.
The phytoplankton bloom deprived bottlenose dolphins of nutritious prey, damaged habitats and led to a sharp rise in strandings and deaths.
Scientist Inna Birchenko began to cry as she described the smouldering protected forest in Thailand where she was collecting samples from local trees shrouded in wildfire smoke.
One morning in 2024, Armando Schlindwein found an orange-bearded monkey on the roof of his farmhouse on the edge of the Brazilian Amazon.
According to a press release, the scheduled areas for prescribed burns are Restoration Marsh, in Floyd County; Sweet Marsh, Aldo Leopold, Heffernan and Walnut Bend, in Bremer County; Upper Wapsi and Wapsi Flats, in Chickasaw County; Big Marsh, West Fork Access, Lower West Fork and Blackmun Prairie, in Butler County; and Cedar Rock and Troy Mills, in Buchanan County.
Deforestation, farming and climate-fuelled fires are driving increasing threats to fungi, the lifeblood of most plants on Earth, the International Union for Conservation of Nature warned Thursday.