Ag & Water Desk launches annual fundraising campaign
Help fund the important local news and information the Desk provides.
Series graphic: Michael Crowe (Ag & Water Desk) with images by Jeff Wheeler and Anthony Soufflé (Minnesota Star Tribune)
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.
Irina Zhorov, left, will be the Ag & Water Desk's new Assistant Director. Britny Cordera, right, is the Desk's first Engagement Editor. Background: The Mississippi River meets the Gulf of Mexico, seen by air in July 2024. Photo by La'Shance Perry, The Lens, via Southwings
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.
A flood cornfield near Wells, Minnesota, on June 22. Credit: Christopher Vondracek, Star Tribune
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.
Just one year away from a 2025 deadline to reduce the farm runoff washing down the Mississippi River into Gulf of Mexico by 20%, success seems unlikely. (Photos: Darrell Hoemann, Investigate Midwest; ROSCOSMOS/NASA)
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.
A home in Breathitt County, Ky., is inundated by muddy water on July 30, 2022, after historic rains caused deadly flooding in many areas of Eastern Kentucky. Credit: Michael Clevenger, Louisville Courier Journal
Ag & Water Desk series “When It Rains” wins international journalism award
Our collaborative project on increasing rainfall in the Mississippi River basin was honored by the Covering Climate Now Journalism Awards.
Ag & Water Desk expands coverage of local environment and agriculture news with new grant
The $2.47 million grant extends the Walton Family Foundation's support of the Desk for three more years and represents a more than $1 million increase over the local reporting network's founding grant in 2021.