This Week's News: An endangered dragonfly spotted in southeast Missouri, concern of pesticides in rural Missouri and the politics of pesticides, dam removals in Michigan and California, a new bridge at Theodosia, MO, record setting water lilies at the Missouri Botanical Garden, how microplastics are released by cleaning tools, and a 300-mile butterfly trail in Missouri. 

This Week's News: PFAS in beer, an upcoming Army Corps inspection trip with stops in Missouri, how federal cuts have affected upper Mississippi River efforts, a new way to bait and remove invasive carp, the human equivalent of CAFO waste in the St. Croix River watershed, a growing dead zone in the Gulf, proposed federal protection for 100 miles of Montana rivers, an innovative approach to communicate soil moisture, the Living Lands and Waters floating classroom docks in St. Paul, upcoming fish events and litter pickups in Missouri, a fire at Lake of the Ozarks, replacing lead pipes in St. Louis, and the world's shortest river is found in Montana.

This Week's news: Arkansas bans large swine operations in Buffalo River watershed, Ozark Heritage project volunteers clean up Current River and respond to national flooding disasters, a fish salvage in St. Louis, new Missouri law signed to ban water exports, fisherman reels in monster blue catfish near Washington, MO, nitrate pollution clouds tap water in Iowa, source of zebra mussels discovered for the Colorado River, the Utah legislature considers addressing Great Salt Lake, Chinook salmon seen for first time in nearly 100 years in California river, people told to stay out of the Great Lakes, storm flips dock at Table Rock, lock and dam open on the Mississippi at Alton, and kayaker rescue reminds of importance to wear life jacket