The Yazoo Pumps project purports to reduce flooding while protecting farmers and minimizing environmental harm. But concerns ...

With budget losses to both the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Army Corps of Engineers, mitigation grant programs ...

Following the U.S. Supreme Court's 2023 Sackett ruling, the Biden Administration estimated that up to 63% of the nation’s ...

Communities across the state are testing the economic value of grant programs to build new wetlands that reduce flooding risk ...

Nearly all of the wetlands in Minnesota’s prairie region have been destroyed. Many of the few that remain – an estimated 5% ...

Dean Klinkenberg, author of The Wild Mississippi: A State-by-State Guide to the River’s Natural Wonders The Lens aims to ...

Arkansas has no state laws specifically for wetland protection, leading conservationists to depend on funds raised by duck stamps. But waterfowl populations are under increasing threats leading to ...

The Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk, a journalism collaborative based at the University of Missouri School of Journalism in partnership with Report for America, publishes an examination of how ...

Nick Chastil and Katy Reckdahl on working conditions at Angola's Farm Line, with an eye on summer heat, and execution in Louisiana, following the first state execution in more than a decade.

Learn more about the Mississippi River Basin's wetlands from coastal Louisiana to the headwaters in Minnesota.

In the wake of federal rollbacks, states are now choosing whether to further degrade or expand wetlands protections. Some conservationists fear that a loss of protections will increase the price of ...