Jenna Ladd | August 15, 2016 This Monday's On The Radio segment discusses new turtle trapping restrictions introduced by the Iowa Department of Natural Resources earlier this month. Transcript: Iowa Department of Natural Resources proposes turtle trapping restrictions Turtles will get new protections under newly proposed state trapping regulations. This is the Iowa Environmental Focus. Earlier this…
Jenna Ladd | January 31, 2017 Co-director of the University of Iowa Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research (CGRER), Gregory Carmichael, will give this year's University of Iowa Presidential Lecture. Carmichael became faculty at the University of Iowa in 1978 after earning a BS in chemical engineering at Iowa State University and a PhD from…
Listen to this week's radio segment, which discusses Iowans' high risk of exposure to deadly radon. You can read more about radon in Iowa here. It’s called the “invisible killer.” This is the Iowa Environmental Focus. Through cracks in floors, walls or foundations, it silently seeps into buildings - a naturally-occurring, radioactive gas that kills thousands…
Take a listen to this week's radio segment - Climate change and Iowa's wood turtle. Think Iowa’s changing climate is harmless? Iowa’s endangered wood turtle would beg to differ – if it had vocal chords, that is. This is the Iowa Environmental Focus. Iowa’s wood turtle is just one of many species in decline, due to…
(Des Moines) Iowans can expect more extreme weather like the 2012 drought thanks to changes in the climate caused by greenhouse gases. That’s according to a statewide group of Iowa scientists who believe that Iowans should act now to reduce economic costs due to climate change “In a warmer climate, wet years get wetter and…