From the site of the nation's largest slave revolt, the Banner sisters continue a legacy of environmental and cultural resistance.

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

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.

Arkansas has no state laws specifically for wetland protection, leading conservationists to depend on funds raised by duck ...

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 ...

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

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

While the science is clear – wetlands have lots of benefits and we know how to build more of them – the future is not. The ...

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

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