A U.S. Supreme Court ruling that declared only wetlands connected to a “water of the U.S.” will be protected. That ruling, ...

Over the last 20 years, wetlands have been losing their most ardent advocates, especially in states like Minnesota, South ...

Damaging floods are now so common in the states that border the Mississippi River, including Wisconsin, that the issue can’t ...

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 ...

A project in the Yazoo Backwater Area in western Mississippi is supposed to relieve flooding in the Mississippi Delt, but it ...

By Shanna Hanbury Amphibians in Brazil’s Pantanal, one of the world’s largest and most biodiverse wetlands, could lose huge swaths of their habitat as the region dries out from climate change, a new ...

If you’ve ever set foot in a marsh or a swamp, you’ve been in a wetland. The Mississippi River Basin, which covers 40% of the contiguous U.S., hosts some 65 million acres of them.

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

On the last day of duck season in the heart of Arkansas’ best duck country, longtime hunter Todd Taylor said the hunting just ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Wetlands in the Middle Yangtze River Basin are increasingly threatened by urbanization and agricultural expansion, leading to declines in habitat quality. From ...

Wetlands once provided more natural flood storage across Wisconsin and the Mississippi River Basin, soaking up water like sponges so it couldn’t rush farther downstream. But in Wisconsin and ...