A story in a recent Star Tribune about a Rochester dentist filing a complaint against farmers who plant crops too close to the Zumbro River has everyone from environmentalists to farmers talking.

This could affect rules aimed at protecting wetlands and managing agricultural runoff. Animal welfare standards: The ruling could impact regulations like those via the Packers & Stockyards Act ...

However, this new study suggests that emissions from streams — carrying runoff from agricultural fields — can be just as important, if not more so, in certain regions. Factory farms can be a ...

The sponge, coated with nanoparticles that have an affinity for pollutants, can collect metals like zinc and copper, as well ...

Some agricultural pesticides used in the Midwest can also be carried to the wetland through surface runoff. Nitrates are lost from upland sites primarily through subsurface drainage. In the wetland, ...

Gov. Arne Carlson’s vow to clean up the heavily polluted Minnesota River, to make it swimmable and fishable once again. Then, the focus was on ...

The New York City Department of Environmental Protection announced Saturday it is committing nearly a quarter-billion dollars to continue protecting its reservoirs in the Catskills from farm and ...

Large farms would have to report their fertilizer use under a bill being considered by the Oregon Legislature. The goal, the bill’s backers say, is to avoid situations like the one in the Boardman ...