Researchers, patients optimistic in fight against alpha-gal syndrome
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.
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One month in, settling in at the Desk
Reflections on our assistant editorial director's first month on the job.
Alpha-gal syndrome is spreading rapidly. Arkansas may hold clues to why it’s spreading, how it functions — and what comes next.
Diagnoses of the severe, tick-borne allergy are rising throughout the basin. The frontlines of the disease offer lessons.
After decades of overhunting and habitat loss, black bears are slowly recolonizing the lower Mississippi River Basin
The Mississippi Alluvial Valley was once the ‘breadbasket’ of black bears
Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk wins Collaboration Award from LION Publishers
The Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk has been honored with the Collaboration of the Year Award from nonprofit news consortium LION Publishers.
Newsrooms invited to apply for the Ag & Water Desk through Report for America
The Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk invites newsrooms throughout the region to join its award-winning collaborative by
Revised wetlands protection laws in Louisiana, other states open door to development
BATON ROUGE, La. — Bayou Sauvage Urban National Wildlife Refuge, an area of marshland at the eastern edge of New Orleans,
Announcing our wetlands photo contest winners!
As part of the Desk collaborative project, "Down the Drain," we asked readers to submit wetlands images for a photography contest.
DEADLINE EXTENDED: Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk launches its first-ever photo contest
The Desk is opening submissions for its Wetlands photo contest for the first time.
Down the Drain: A new series on wetlands by the Ag & Water Desk
Our latest collaborative project, free to republish, explores recent legal and policy changes impacting wetlands, and the many ways people interact with these landscapes in the Mississippi River Basin.
Ag & Water Desk receives $300,000 grant from MacArthur Foundation
The Desk has also received more than $120,000 in additional grants and funding over the last few months
Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk wins $100,000 grant from Press Forward
The first round of Press Forward’s campaign to strengthen local newsrooms received more than 900 applications nationwide.
Ag & Water Desk hires new Assistant Director, Engagement Editor
Two accomplished freelance journalists will expand the collaborative’s editing and outreach capacity.
Three accomplished environmental journalists join Ag & Water Desk as mentors, project advisors
These experienced reporters and editors will support the Ag & Water Desk’s collaborative coverage of the U.S.’s largest watershed from Sierra Magazine, the Iowa Capital Dispatch and Inside Climate News.
We're hiring: Ag & Water Desk seeks new Assistant Director to support editing, operations
This position contributes to editing and digital production, impact tracking and story distribution, and project strategy and administration. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis beginning on July 18, 2024.
Farm to Trouble: A new series on slow progress curbing the runoff fueling the Gulf's 'dead zone'
Our latest collaborative project, free to republish, looks at the farming practices -- and overlooked solutions -- that pump fertilizer runoff into the Gulf of Mexico, causing a persistent "dead zone" and more impacts upstream.