Senator Vargas, Hoping For A Second Term
OMAHA -Senator Tony Vargas’ main focus is helping the working class, those living on the poverty line, education and health care.
Road to Omaha – Oral Roberts Golden Eagles
Omaha, NE – On today’s episode of “Road to Omaha,” KVNO’s Brandon McDermott spoke with Oral Roberts head coach Ryan Folmar.
Amplify Arts’ Alternate Currents and ‘Hostile Terrain 94 Nebraska’
Amplify Arts currently has an exhibition open as well as new content available on their website. Alternate Currents is a blog, conversation series, and artist working group.
Corporate-Environment Ag Partnerships: Just Good PR, or More?
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Partnerships between agribusinesses and environmental nonprofits may offer more than just good public relations for the companies involved, reports Erica Hunzinger for Harvest Public Media.
Read MoreMore fertilizer plants come online and bring their baggage: CO2
By Harvest Public Media
The U.S. may be on the verge of a boom in new fertilizer plants, which could be good news for farmers, but not the environment. Today’s farmers can produce more from their land than ever before thanks, in part, to nitrogen fertilizer, a key ingredient that has never been more widely available
Read MoreFood companies begin to pressure farmers to reduce runoff
By Harvest Public Media
Corn and soybean farmers often apply more than a thousand pounds of fertilizer to every acre they farm. That helps farmers grow a lot of grain – but it can also destroy waterways from the Midwest to the Gulf of Mexico.
Read MoreCheaper, easier monitoring could hasten water clean-up
By Harvest Public Media
Throughout the cropland of the Midwest, farmers use chemicals on their fields to nourish the plants and the soil. But excess nitrogen, phosphorus and other nutrients can wash off the fields and into streams, rivers and eventually the Gulf of Mexico.
Read MoreHigh Water in the Platte Basin
By Ariana Brocious
It’s been a big water year on the Platte. This year’s wet spring sent as much water down the Platte River in two months as usually passes through in an average year.
Read MoreKeystone XL report says Nebraska water threat unlikely
By Fred Knapp
Omaha, NE — The final Environmental Impact Statement on the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline was released Friday. The State Department said it is “very unlikely” the pipeline could affect water quality in the Great Plains Aquifer in Nebraska.
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