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.
Lock and Dam 15 in the Quad Cities of Iowa and Illinois is seen from above on the Mississippi River in September 2023. Aerial support provided by LightHawk. Credit: Nick Rohlman, The Gazette
We’re expanding into new corners of the basin, every mainstem state, multimedia formats and more.
Lock and Dam 15 in the Quad Cities of Iowa and Illinois is seen from above on the Mississippi River in September 2023. Aerial support provided by LightHawk. Credit: Nick Rohlman, The Gazette
We hope your holiday season is off to a good start. Sorry we missed you last week — we were getting ready for a big announcement!
Today we’re thrilled to share with you the 11 newsrooms that will join the Ag & Water Desk team in 2024. The new cohort was announced Thursday by our partner Report for America, which will support the hiring of 11 new Ag & Water Desk journalists who will begin working with us and covering local environmental beats at these outlets next year.
Check out the new outlets joining our team, highlighted below beside our current partners:
The addition of these newsrooms will give the Desk a footprint in every mainstem Mississippi River state, with contributors from more than 20 news outlets overall.
The new cohort includes the Ag & Water Desk’s first newsrooms in Mississippi and Arkansas, our first TV partners (both commercial and public), and our first indigenous newsroom and first partner in the far western reaches of the watershed. It also increases our public radio representation and connects us with the States Newsroom network.
In the words of our executive director Sara Shipley Hiles: “We’re helping to rebuild coverage of agriculture and environmental issues across the heart of America.”
“Heim's reporting reminds readers that a ‘working river’ is a polluted river,” writes one reader in a letter to The Cedar Rapids Gazette about our latest story, a follow-up to recent coverage of our basin public opinion study. This letter calls it “the kind of journalism that explores competing interests of commerce and conservation.”
By Madeline Heim, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel — Nov. 29, 2023
Mike Valley, left, and his grandson, Bryce Priebe, haul in a net Sept. 26 on the Mississippi River near Cassville, Wisconsin. Valley is one of the last commercial fishermen on the upper Mississippi River, and has seen many changes to the river in the decades he's fished it. Credit: Mark Hoffman, Milwaukee Journal SentinelMississippi River floodwaters rise in Savanna, Illinois, on April 26, 2023. Credit: photo by Nick Rohlman, The Gazette
The Nov. 30 capture of the nuisance fish is the largest in Wisconsin and Minnesota waters to date. Officials say carp are one of the biggest threats to the river's native fish communities and that heavy spring flooding along the river likely allowed these fish to move upstream past open dams.
By Madeline Heim, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel — Dec. 6, 2023
A black carp collected by USGS scientists from the Mississippi River. Credit: U.S. Geological Survey
