Communities across Wisconsin 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 billion a year that would otherwise be spent combating floods.
In this piece — part of a series from The Gazette and the Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk — a look at how love of birds, whether for sport or food, has fueled the push to restore Minnesota wetlands that were once drained.
In this piece — part of a series from The Gazette and the Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk — a look at what’s next for America’s disappearing wetlands, and how the battle to save remaining wetlands will fall to states, which don’t protect them equally.
In this piece — part of a series from The Gazette and the Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk — a look at a lawsuit that targets the 40-year-old “Swampbuster” law that aims to prevent farmers from destroying wetlands.
The Mississippi River is the nation’s most endangered river, a national conservation group says, because of federal plans to cut flood relief programs as severe weather threats grow.
The U.S. butterfly population — not just Monarch butterflies — declined 22 percent in two decades, according to recently-published research.
Sluggish progress on reducing nutrient runoff into the Chesapeake Bay marks an inconvenient truth, but offers lessons for others seeking to clean their watersheds.
Los fondos federales para la agricultura son recursos esenciales, pero los productores inmigrantes se enfrentan con barreras lingüísticas y culturales que no les permiten sacar provecho de ellos
Federal agriculture funding is a vital resource, but immigrant producers face language and cultural obstacles to benefiting from it.
Officials in McDonough County passed a pipeline moratorium last year; developers offered 30 years of payments in exchange for “good faith” support of the project.
There is no long-term, stable financial support for watershed management authorities, creating unmet demand for local conservation practices.
The facility’s retirement, scheduled for the end of the year, brings Alliant Energy one step closer to achieving its renewable energy goals.
This marks the first time the DNR has proposed to withdraw such a plan.
States across the Mississippi River basin are experiencing drought more commonly found in the arid Southwest, federal data show. The dryness has disrupted agriculture, beached barges and upset ecosystems across large swaths of the Midwest, Great Plains and beyond, in epic proportions — even as the region also sees climate change-induced increases in rainfall.
Summit executive, University of Iowa engineering professor and pipeline safety expert discuss carbon sequestration at an Iowa Ideas panel
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