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.
We’ve got something big to share! Our new website is now live at agwaterdesk.org.
This isn’t just a design refresh — although it is that, too.
For the first time, all the work we’ve produced in the past four years is gathered in one easy-to-search place. You can find every story and every project since we started publishing.
Why? This summer, you told us in our reader survey that our website should be easier to navigate, and it should feature news and information from throughout the Mississippi River Basin.
Here are some features of our new site:
Partner spotlight: To date, the Desk has partnered with 27 newsrooms and 28 journalists in the basin to tell the stories of people solving environmental problems across the heart of America. These outlets and reporters each have a unique landing page featuring their collaborative stories with the Desk. It’s impressive to see the work catalogue of longtime partners like Investigate Midwest in Iowa and The Lens in New Orleans, or reporters like Maddy Heim of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Eva Tesfaye of WWNO, and Elise Plunk of the Louisiana Illuminator.
Showcasing our impact: No other newsroom can pull together impactful reporting from multiple reporters across this vast watershed. Now you can find the Desk’s basin-wide multimedia projects, such as our finding that rainfall across the basin has increased by upwards of 8 inches a year, leading to devastating floods; our investigation of the farm runoff choking the Gulf of Mexico; and our data centers series.
Topic hubs: Our stories are now organized by topics that readers told us matter most, such as agriculture, water, pollution and solutions. Plus, use the high-powered search bar to find articles, tags and authors.
Easier sharing: We aim to reach the 70 million people who live in the basin and beyond. Know someone who wants to be informed about environmental problems and solutions across the region? Share our newsletter and explore our newsletter’s archive here. Know a newsroom that should join our network of 150 newsrooms republishing our content? Share our republish page. Finally, we’ve made it easier for news outlets to download content with one click, via our cool HTML republish widget on every story.
Member log-in: People who subscribe to our newsletters are now “members” who can log in to manage their subscriptions. Our stories will always be free for everyone to read and share, even without signing in. But if you do sign in, it helps us track what our readers are interested in — and we want to report on the things you care most about.
Please take our new site for a spin and let us know what you think. Send your feedback and suggestions to info@agwaterdesk.org, or simply reply to this email.
The Ag & Water Desk recently asked a leader of Chicago’s water district and an environmental activist about the consequences of reversing the Chicago River in 1900. They shared their thoughts during the Society of Environmental Journalists’ annual conference.
Delaney Nolan
Jana Rose Schleis
Rose LaForest
