Nitrates are a crucial nutrient for crops and are present in fertilizers. Still, too much can leach into groundwater and ...

As flowing water erodes the limestone layered beneath the Earth’s surface in southwestern Indiana, caves and sinkholes develop. This hilly underground landscape occurs naturally and allows unfiltered ...

DECORAH - Though it provides little solace for northeast Iowans worried about the impact of livestock confinements in areas of karst topography, attendees at a daylong forum on the subject at Luther ...

A feedlot for Supreme Beef near Clayton County’s Monona is pictured March 29, 2023. The facility was built in karst terrain, where critics said a manure spill could seep through porous bedrock and ...

Twenty percent of tested wells in Door County contain evidence of coliform bacteria, according to Kevin Masarik, outreach specialist with the University of Wisconsin-Extension's Center for Watershed ...

If microbiology is the study of microbes, and sociology is the study of societies, then meteorologists ought to be giving us the forecast on incoming space rocks. In the Sciences, labels are supposed ...

Our report on the study of karst took us from local experts to a globally-acclaimed scientist. The ground under Augusta County, the way it's formed, is simple to conceptualize if you picture one ...

In past columns I discussed two of the features a person can find in our Indiana karst landscape. There are, however, other karst features of interest in our state. Sinkholes are a very common ...