While prison officials and Farm Line workers disagree about whether the incarcerated workers have all the shade and water ...

The Army Corps controls the design and operational procedures of flood reduction, so it doesn’t matter whether the governor ...

From the site of the nation's largest slave revolt, the Banner sisters continue a legacy of environmental and cultural resistance.

Arkansas has no state laws specifically for wetland protection, leading conservationists to depend on funds raised by duck ...

Communities across the state are testing the economic value of grant programs to build new wetlands that reduce flooding risk ...

With budget losses to both the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Army Corps of Engineers, mitigation grant programs ...

The 1985 "Swampbuster" law — which has protected millions of acres of U.S. wetlands from being cleared and plowed — is being ...

Nearly all of the wetlands in Minnesota’s prairie region have been destroyed. Many of the few that remain – an estimated 5% of the total before settlement – were saved by duck hunters.

In the wake of federal rollbacks, states are now choosing whether to further degrade or expand wetlands protections. Some conservationists fear that a loss of protections will increase the price of ...

Dean Klinkenberg, author of The Wild Mississippi: A State-by-State Guide to the River’s Natural Wonders The Lens aims to ...

Education reporter Marta Jewson on the state's request that the courts free them from a special education consent decree, the ...

Lycée Français de la Nouvelle Orléans' Leonidas campus was renovated using tax credits. (La'Shance Perry/The Lens) After missing a crucial step in the renovation of its Leonidas campus, Lycée Français ...