Mississippi River Basin

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is seeking public input as it rewrites the definition of the “waters of the United States,” a key term in the Clean Water Act that determines over which waters the federal government has jurisdiction.

En el noreste de Iowa, un grupo de árboles ralos parece fuera de lugar. Está rodeado de campos de cultivo en el lado norte de una carretera de cuatro carriles, un oasis de naturaleza poco común en la zona rural de Iowa, donde cultivar cada pulgada de tierra es primordial.

Experts say the drop in abundance is largely due to chemical use, habitat loss and a warming climate

The Mississippi River is the nation’s most endangered river, a national conservation group says, because of federal plans to cut flood relief programs as severe weather threats grow.

In less than 10 years, three catastrophic floods ravaged northwestern Wisconsin and changed the way people think about water.

Fourth-generation Middle Tennessee cattle farmer Cole Liggett lined up with scientists and environmental advocates in March to urge Tennessee lawmakers not to gut the state’s historically strong protections for wetlands.

On the last day of duck season in the heart of Arkansas’ best duck country, longtime hunter Todd Taylor said the hunting just wasn’t as good as previous years.

It was late in the season and most of the birds were gone. But there had to be a few stragglers out there, late migrators that hadn’t yet left for warmer waters.

Wetlands come in many shapes and sizes, and they go by many names: bog, slough, fen, marsh, swamp and more.

Anderson Jones first remembers his home flooding in 1973, when water from the nearby Mississippi River blanketed his family’s 10-acre farm and surrounded the shotgun house his father built, leaving it an island.