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

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

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

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

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

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

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% ...

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

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

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.

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 ...