Amteshwar Singh Gill, a former dentist from Punjab, has created North India’s largest fully mechanised RAS fish farm, ...

Researchers explain how nitrate from farming and fish ponds moves through water and pollutes freshwater lakes.

Editor's Note: This article originally appeared in the November 2025 print edition of Greenhouse Management under the headline “Clear stock, strong crops.” Water-soluble fertilizers are blends of ...

Nitrate concentrations, exacerbated by a wet spring that followed years of dry conditions, reached near record highs in Iowa rivers this summer. Concentrations are typically elevated in the summer.

Samantha Williams, co-president of the Nishnabotna Water Defenders, holds a dissolved oxygen test next to the East Nishnabotna River near Red Oak. The state's fifth largest recorded fish kill occurred ...

Across the Midwest, many towns pull their drinking water from underground layers of sand and silt. Those hidden reserves, called aquifers, carry the imprint of what we put on the land above them. New ...

Nitrates seep into rural communities' water supply, incurring high costs and health risks. A new report by the Alliance for the Great Lakes explores. Wisconsin’s drinking water is facing a growing ...

Excessive use of fertilizers has fueled global food production, but it has also left behind a serious problem: nitrate pollution in soil and water. High nitrate levels threaten drinking water safety, ...

Hundreds of millions of Americans, including people in Eugene and Springfield, are drinking chemicals tied to cancer, according to researchers at the Environmental Working Group. EWG surveyed drinking ...

A new report finds nitrate contamination in Wisconsin could cost communities millions and increase health care bills. Nitrate, primarily from excess farm fertilizer and manure, is Wisconsin's most ...

University of Minnesota Extension hosted a Cover Crops and Winter Cash Crops Field Day in September 2024 at Lawler Farms near Eyota, Minn. Back in 1940, southeast Minnesota had about twice as many ...

A judge ordered Minnesota state agencies overseeing nitrate and water pollution issues to review the effectiveness of their rules as part of a lawsuit by environmental advocates. Ramsey County ...