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.
It’s been a banner year for the Ag & Water Desk. We announced the selection of 11 new partner newsrooms that will grow our team in 2024 (reporters — apply now!), expanded our major funding from the Walton Family Foundation, won some amazing honors from organizations like Covering Climate Now, and traveled to Boise, Idaho, to learn together as a team at the Society of Environmental Journalists annual conference.
Not to mention, we reported dozens of stories that we’re really proud of — and they were published and broadcast by news outlets of all shapes and sizes around the world.
Read on for our latest headlines and more highlights from throughout this busy year, and thanks as always for being part of this project. This newsletter will be back on Jan. 12.
By Keely Brewer, The Daily Memphian — Dec. 14, 2023
A boater on the Mississippi River near Wabasha, Minnesota docks at a sand island used by the Army Corps of Engineers on Monday, July 24, 2023. The Corps routinely dredges sand to keep the river open for boat traffic. Credit: Elizabeth Flores, Star Tribune
The upper river’s narrow landscape makes it difficult to store material dredged up by the Army Corps of Engineers, which must by law spend millions keeping the Mississippi open for business.
Albert Johnson Jr. walks among the cattle on his family farm near Lexington, Mississippi, on Nov. 9, 2023. Credit: Imani Khayyam for the Ag & Water Desk
