DES MOINES, Iowa – Recent rainfall may be helping lawns turn green across Iowa, but water experts say the wet weather has ...

Princeton, Iowa spends $800,000 on a new well, but nitrate contamination leaves residents reliant on a decades-old water ...

College students are testing private wells in south-central Kansas. The results are prompting families to install treatment systems to reduce nitrate levels. Matthew Kirk has an unpleasant task: ...

UC Davis researchers insert a device that continuously collects water samples underground, providing real-time data on nitrate contaminant movement. Extreme weather spurred by climate change, ...

During a news conference on Tuesday, Des Moines Waterworks CEO Ted Corrigan highlighted the significant nitrate challenge in Iowa's water supply, attributing it primarily to farm fertilizers. "Right ...

Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed a computation-guided strategy to produce urea more efficiently from carbon dioxide and nitrate. By combining large language ...

Corn is a key source of biofuel. Fertilizing it releases a potent greenhouse gas into the air, so the federal government had approved research to grow the crop with less nitrogen. The funding is now ...

NOW. CENTRAL IOWA WATER WORKS SAYS NITRATE LEVELS IN OUR LOCAL RIVERS ARE GOING DOWN. FOR THE MOST PART. YOU CAN SEE THOSE LEVELS OVER THE LAST THREE DAYS RIGHT THERE ON YOUR SCREEN. NITRATES IN THE ...