Drought on the lower Mississippi River has pushed barge rates up 31% and slashed southbound shipments 79%, threatening U.S.

Governor Pritzker opens new $21.5M facility at Philip J. Rock Center & School in Glen Ellyn, enhancing education and ...

Google has agreed to finance restoration of the Amazon rainforest in its biggest deal yet for carbon removal credits, as Big Tech hunts for high-quality credits to offset emissions tied to ...

Last month during a brief storm, a trash boom set in place, just inside U.S. territory, managed to stop 20 tons of trash and ...

Discover the world's surprisingly short rivers, some under 200 meters, that hold immense ecological and cultural value. From ...

A fertilizer spill killed hundreds of thousands of fish in southwest Iowa last year. Now, a group of locals are building a ...

Explore Iowa’s deserted ghost towns, where crumbling buildings and empty streets still echo the spirit of the Heartland.

Fifty years ago on Nov. 10, 1975, the 729-foot lake freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank during a severe gale in Lake Superior. All 29 crewmembers were lost. It was the largest ship ever to sink in the ...

The deadly legacy of Cold War uranium mines looms over better regulated operations near Navajo Nation land in Arizona.

This article lists impressive natural and man-made landmarks visible from outer space, including the Great Wall of China, ...

Much of Google's greenhouse gas emissions come from the electricity it buys for its data centers and offices. Those so-called market-based scope 2 emissions more than tripled from 2020 to 3.1 million ...