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Spring blooming trees only put on a show for a couple of weeks each year in the state of Iowa, but the show can be spectacular ..read more
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1w ago
Residential areas marked red — starting in the 1930s — were deemed places of high-risk investment. The impacts of this practice, called redlining, persist today and even extend to the tree canopy ..read more
Iowa Public Radio » Environment
1w ago
A cancer cluster in Illinois was connected to a nearby chemical plant that emitted carcinogenic ethylene, a chemical targeted by new Environmental Protection Agency guidelines ..read more
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2w ago
Biologist and primatologist Frans de Waal passed away last month at the age of 75, leaving behind a legacy of groundbreaking animal research ..read more
Iowa Public Radio » Environment
2w ago
Canada geese, white-tailed deer, wild turkey - these are all species that were once rare in Iowa, but now are seemingly everywhere ..read more
Iowa Public Radio » Environment
2w ago
As the weather warms up and insects emerge, you might find yourself with some unwanted houseguests crawling around ..read more
Iowa Public Radio » Environment
2w ago
As the weather warms up and insects emerge, you might find yourself with some unwanted houseguests crawling around ..read more
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Two eaglets hatched right on time this past week at a nest monitored by the Raptor Resource Project near Decorah ..read more
Iowa Public Radio » Environment
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Every spring, nearly a million sandhill cranes pass through an 80-mile stretch of the Platte River in Nebraska on their northward migration ..read more
Iowa Public Radio » Environment
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Writer Kaveh Akbar about his debut novel, "Martyr!" Then wildlife rehabilitators discuss the persistent problem of lead poisoning in Iowa's birds ..read more