Articles written by Yanqi Xu

Sorted by date  Results 1 - 5 of 5



 By Yanqi Xu    News    March 13, 2024

More out-of-staters travel to Nebraska to get abortions

Nebraska is now down to one surgical abortion provider less than a year after lawmakers passed a 12-week ban. The Bellevue clinic founded by the late Dr. LeRoy Carhart – once one of only three...

 
 By Yanqi Xu    News    April 27, 2023

Ogallala Aquifer continues to shrink in southwest Nebraska

Last summer, Imperial farmer Dirk Haarberg made the hard decision to let some of his milo crop die. The heat and the wind had proven too much and Haarberg needed to save water for his other...

 

Experts call state nitrate problem serious. Can we solve it?

Pretend for a moment that Nebraska somehow halted all use of nitrogen fertilizer – not a single speck more on our lawns, golf courses and corn fields. What would happen? Nothing fast. That's...

 
 By Yanqi Xu    News    November 24, 2022

No nitrate police: State, local regulators can't, or won't, stop drinking water from getting worse

The farmer was growing impatient. He and dozens of other central Nebraska farmers had gathered for mandatory training in Columbus a few weeks before last Christmas. In response to high nitrate...

 
 By Yanqi Xu    News    November 3, 2022

Our Dirty Water

Nick Herringer claps along with a metronome. He draws lines on a big screen, repeating patterns drawn by the computer. He identifies icons of cars when they flash before his eyes. This is the 22-year-old's speech and cognitive therapy, which he has...

 

Powered by ROAR Online Publication Software from Lions Light Corporation
© Copyright 2024

Rendered 03/28/2024 04:04