North of the Lover's Leap Swinging Bridge and south of the Fenelon Place Elevator, another Iowa attraction calls to travelers seeking a unique outdoorsy experience. Nicknamed 'Little Switzerland ...

Over the objections of Iowa state officials, federal regulators will require plans to confront heavy nitrate concentrations ...

Don't let the frigid weather scare you away; as it turns out, Iowa's countryside becomes especially whimsical in the winter.

Iowa politicians are too deferential to those ... Larew described it as "a milestone event" that strengthened his desire to protect nature. He went to the East Coast for college, where he studied ...

F. Kay and his colleagues on the Iowa Geological Survey during the last ten years or so. It has to be admitted that the effectiveness of the old methods is definitely limited, for the sands and ...

Even while large farming enterprises clear forests in Brazil or Bolivia in order to graze cattle or grow crops, some farmers elsewhere are walking away from their land, letting nature reclaim it.

This soil from Iowa is dark due to high organic matter content; combined with high plant-available, water-holding capacity due to a high silt concentration. Soils with these characteristics are ...

Refers to the latest 2 years of omaha.com stories. Cancel anytime. Hitchcock Nature Center in Honey Creek, Iowa, will receive a $450,000 grant from Iowa’s Resource Enhancement and Protection ...