On Nov. 8, the Boston Public Health Commission released a health advisory due to a cyanobacteria bloom in Sprague Pond in Hyde Park, which falls in the Neponset River watershed. For two weeks in ...

Manatees along Florida’s coast are eating less seagrass and more algae than they did a few decades ago. This dietary shift ...

The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) urges farmers to utilize the manure runoff risk advisory forecast before manure application. This online tool ( ...

Fertilizers are the largest source of nitrous oxide, a potent greenhouse gas that’s also the most significant destroyer of ...

When it rains, any of that fertilizer, nutrients, or anything that the soil or the plants haven't absorbed is washed away by stormwater runoff, and it's carried into our rivers and streams and affects ...

Results from the annual Iowa Nutrient Research & Education Council crop survey show Iowa farmers planted more than 3.8 ...

Scientists are sounding the alarm about growing dead zones in the Gulf of Mexico and beyond. Dead zones are areas of water with hypoxia, or dangerously low levels of oxygen. Dead zones are caused by ...

Researchers have developed a new material that helps remove phosphorus from field runoff and then doubles as a fertilizer.

For much of the area harvest is wrapped up. For many, Fall is also the time for manure application to fields. Manure is a ...

Innovative biochar pellets from UIUC show promise in reducing phosphorus runoff, offering a sustainable solution for farmers ...

Iowa Department of Natural Resources officials are investigating a feedlot manure runoff occurring in Montgomery County late ...

On a warm late-summer evening, a small speedboat motored across a pea-green stretch of Lake Erie past a beach where a child sat splashing and a pair ...