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

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

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

Given that mistake, parents question whether the school is financially ready to repair McDonogh 15 in the French Quarter.

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

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

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% ...

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

Education reporter Marta Jewson on the state's request that the courts free them from a special education consent decree, the ...

Since prisoners challenged conditions on the Farm Line, state officials have implemented policies making them even worse, ...

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 ...