A support group and a lab in the St. Louis area provide resources for people with the allergy to mammal products — and evidence that its effects can be reversed.
From the headwaters to the Delta, the Mississippi River basin is undergoing huge change — from new levels of dangerous heat and humidity, to waves of wildfire smoke and unpredictable swings between intensifying rainfall, flooding, and drought.
These extremes, driven by climate change, are affecting pollution and runoff, straining local budgets and putting new pressures on aging infrastructure, which humans have used for a century or more to try and control the river and its tributaries.
How will people in this vast watershed respond? In our new series A Changing Basin, the Ag & Water Desk digs into that question. The answers will shape the future of water supplies, farms and habitats that sustain millions of lives and support countless species.
By Bennet Goldstein, Wisconsin Watch — June 26, 2023
A farmer stands in a crop field in Jasper, Missouri. Most of the Midwest is in drought after a prolonged dry spell in the spring. Credit: Luke Runyon, Harvest Public Media in southern Wisconsin, June 4, 2023. Photo by Tom Purdy via Twitter
By Madeline Heim, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel & Brittney J. Miller, The Gazette of Cedar Rapids — April 30, 2023
A pair of homes along the Mississippi River are inundated with water on April 27, 2023, near La Crosse, Wisconsin. Credit: Mark Hoffman, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
