Indiana is losing wetlands even as the state has made some effort to protect them. Wetlands provide wildlife habitat, purify and recharge groundwater for drinking, and reduce flood risks by storing water. However, Indiana has lost up to 90% of its wetlands. .
By Mónica Cordero, Investigate Midwest/Report for America and Eva Tesfaye, Harvest Public Media for Investigate Midwest.Broadcast version by Farah Siddiqi for Ohio News Connection reporting for the Investigate Midwest-Public News Service Collaboration Juan Peña, 28, has worked in the fields since childhood, often exposing his body to extreme heat like the wave hitting the Midwest this week. The heat can cause such deep pain in his whole body that he just wants to lie down, he said. It sucks his desire to work, as his body tells him he can’t take another hot day on the job. On those days, his only motivation to get out of bed is to earn dollars to send to his 10-month-old baby in Mexico. .
(KMAland) Clean-water activists are angry over a decision by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to sidestep action on threats to water posed by factory farms.
By Torsheta Jackson for Yes! Magazine.Broadcast version by Suzanne Potter for California News Service reporting for the YES! Media-Public News Service Collaboration It s a Thursday afternoon, and Tranita Davis is carting cases of water to the curb outside the M.W. .
Clean-water activists are angry over a decision by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to sidestep action on threats to water posed by factory farms. A group of petitioners, including Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement, called on the EPA six years ago to toughen regulations. .