Olivia Cohen

Many researchers who’ve spent their careers studying the natural world experience environmental grief from witnessing the changes and disappearances of some species. They encourage people to reconnect with nature, and say climate change is a challenge that an be turned into an opportunity.

Meteorologists are predicting a quarter of an inch of ice or more on the roads starting late Friday night.

The Cedar Rapids Utilities Department organized a celebration last week to mark the culmination of two years of work to construct farmland edge of field practices — like saturated buffers and bioreactors — to improve water quality in Cedar Rapids and the surrounding area.

UI prepares to launch new environment and sustainability school

Almost 15,000 electric vehicles have been registered in state since 2020

The Orlan Love Prairie — and other parts of Linn County’s Wanatee Park — will undergo reseeding efforts after invasive plants threatened to choke out the native Iowa plants that were put there to attract and support pollinators.

In Iowa, about 10 percent of the energy workforce is comprised of veterans.

Iowa Department of Natural Resource’s Erika Billerbeck is working on a second book and writing more magazine articles about her work as a conservation officer.

Between Oct. 29 and Nov. 7, severe drought conditions dropped by 37.9 percent, according to Thursday’s Drought Monitor,

McLoud Run has seen more than a dozen fish kills since 1997, more than half due to water main breaks that released treated drinking water into the stream. Now, Cedar Rapids is planning to install water pressure sensors to monitor for breaks that could kill fish in Iowa’s only urban trout stream.