Home reverse osmosis systems are becoming more popular in central Iowa as nitrates affect public drinking water supplies.

Nitrate milligrams per liter has become a phrase central Iowans are all too familiar with this year as Central Iowa Water ...

Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s new novel, “Silver Nitrate,” is about friends whose attempt to lift an old curse unleashes something even more terrifying.

Nitrate is a drinking water contaminant that can cause “blue baby syndrome,” a condition that prevents oxygen from circulating in the blood and can kill infants.

Set in Mexico City in 1993, Silvia Moreno-Garcia's latest novel is steeped in cinematic history and lore, as well an eerie well of myth that recalls H.P. Lovecraft, albeit in a more progressive form.

The lawn watering ban is still in effect going into the holiday weekend. Central Iowa Water Works said they need to see a ...

High nitrate levels have been found in University Park, Kankakee and Peotone drinking water and infants are at risk, health officials warned Sunday.

As near-record nitrate levels strain water supply, Central Iowa Water Works asks residents to slash watering, and contemplates a first-ever ban ...

Nitrate contamination has been a problem in Wisconsin, and elsewhere, for decades. In a 2023 report to the Legislature, members of the state's groundwater coordinating council wrote that it is ...

The last time the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality compiled comprehensive data on nitrate ground pollution in the Lower Umatilla Basin was 2012. More than a decade later, Oregonians have ...