This Week's News:  Wetlands protect migratory birds, concerns with proposed WOTUS Rule, the EPA embraces PFAS pesticides, cities seeing PFAS in drinking water, a federal rule seeks rollback of protection for imperiled species, a river corridor consideration in Minnesota, how a family fought to save the Klamath River, airplane surveys for new mining aspects in Missouri, Congress extends the Farm Bill, Missouri to lose its lake monitoring program, a Missouri college replaces Bradford Pear trees with native trees, a grant to evaluate wastewater system, and see eagles in Missouri with MDC Eagle Days

This Week's News:  Counting ducks in Missouri with drones and Ai, students clean up Fassnight Creek in Springfield, Missouri's winter trout season underway, a conceptual plan survey for Lake of the Ozarks State Park, watershed discussions for tackling bacteria in Columbia's urban streams, how Iowa farmers band together for water quality practices, a new form of wildlife tourism in Montana views bats, a game changing water proposal in Arizona, an environmental impact statement for proposed sand and gravel mine on the Mississippi River, a mom and her children paddle down the Mississippi, join a post-Thanksgiving hike, and new study on how rivers can be carbon sources or sinks

This Week's News: Bird flu outbreak confirmed in Missouri, an agreement to protect bat habitat at northern Missouri reservoir, building a cleaner, greener St. Louis through the River des Peres Trash Bash, a train derails over Turkey Creek in Joplin, concern that new data centers are increasing water demand in KC and beyond, Kansas biologists restore native mussels, sewage could be dumped into Massachusetts river, arsenic levels elevated, and concern about corrosive runoff in Louisiana, a group collects 900 lbs of trash in Delaware River basin and gain insight on plastic pollution, volunteers in California plant natives, upper basin planning for the Colorado River, a rare scientific look at the effects of storms, and how an Army veteran has explored Missouri streams through packrafting

This Week's News: A new eco-friendly way to destroy forever chemicals, 100 years of river data, a stormwater weapon in St. Louis, Waterkeeper Alliance files FOIA on EPA regarding PFAS, potential federal firings affect Missouri research center, a computer model shows rising threats of flooding in the lower Mississippi, waterfowl hunting will be limited at Eagle Bluffs CA this year due to pump failure, salmon bouncing back on the Klamath River thanks to dam removal, river watchdogs track chemical waste in Pennsylvania, how New Hampshire is tackling road salt issues, city of Bull Shoals needs to address pollution of lake in Arkansas, a bridge replacement on the St. Francis and water quality improvements for Unionville, how ghost nets affect ocean life, and how water salinity affects farmer in Iraq

This Week's News: Arkansas enacts emergency trout rules following hatchery collapse, fun day for Jefferson City students with Missouri River Relief, Mizzou archaeologists discover ancient Roman water basin, concern about federal sale of thousands of acres in Utah, reciprocal fishing and hunting permits in place for several states, a Mississippi State University partnership with tech companies to help farmers conserve water, declining mallard ducks in the delta, water main breaks in Missouri, discover eight types of frogs on the Mississippi River, and Missouri prepares to update ammonia water quality requirements

This Week's News: Blue River Cleanup Grant and Missouri River murals in Kansas City, a look at water supply in southwest Missouri, locals in Arkansas clash over swimming spot, the White River contaminated with sewage at Bull Shoals, Arkansas, Congress declares northwest public land management plans null and void, Louisiana pulls plug on a coastal project, how paying farmers is working for Colorado River conservation, a mom and her kids paddle down the Mississippi, Table Rock Lake remains open despite government shutdown, an introduction to fly tying workshop Oct. 17 in St. Louis area, and new Understanding Rivers resource from National Geographic

This Week's News:  Fishing tournament announced for Table Rock Lake, Missouri's blue spring, moss animals in Missouri, upper Missouri River sandbar management, note on discolored upper Missouri River water, a bicycle bridge across Arizona's Salt River, Mississippi river monsters, a Missouri River rescue, the EPA looks to halt additional wastewater regulations for livestock industries,  an opportunity to learn to fish in Washington, MO, plus prescribed fire for deer management

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