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Julia Poska| February 3, 2019 The UI Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research is excited to announce the revival and reimagination of our EnvIowa podcast. This weekly podcast will feature 10- to 20-minute interviews with Iowa environmental experts, mainly our own member scientists. While these researchers are certainly well versed in the complicated jargon…
VENICE — Kindra Arnesen is a 46-year-old commercial fishing boat operator who has spent most of her life among the pelicans and bayous of southern Louisiana, near the juncture where the 2,350-mile-long Mississippi River ends at the Gulf of Mexico. Clark Porter is a 62-year-old farmer who lives in north-central Iowa where he spends part of […] The post ‘It’s getting worse’ – U.S. failing to stem tide of harmful farm pollutants appeared first on Louisiana Illuminator.
A government plan to address the problem has cost taxpayers billions of dollars with minimal results so far.
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U.S. farmers use more fertilizer and spread more manure than in most other countries, accounting for roughly 10% of global fertilizer use, behind China and India.
A grand government plan to address the problem has cost taxpayers billions of dollars with minimal results so far.