The Army Corps controls the design and operational procedures of flood reduction, so it doesn’t matter whether the governor ...

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

While prison officials and Farm Line workers disagree about whether the incarcerated workers have all the shade and water ...

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

The 1985 "Swampbuster" law — which has protected millions of acres of U.S. wetlands from being cleared and plowed — is being ...

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

Following the U.S. Supreme Court's 2023 Sackett ruling, the Biden Administration estimated that up to 63% of the nation’s remaining wetland acres could lose federal protections.

The Yazoo Pumps project purports to reduce flooding while protecting farmers and minimizing environmental harm. But concerns over wetland degradation have stymied past, smaller versions of the project ...

Communities across the state are testing the economic value of grant programs to build new wetlands that reduce flooding risk. In the upper Midwest, researchers found that wetlands save nearly $23 ...

With budget losses to both the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Army Corps of Engineers, mitigation grant programs to address riverine flooding could be impacted substantially. According to ...

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