Riparian

Midwest deals with rising water, record-setting floods in some areas

Global Politics

Heavy rains, following a winter with considerable snow, has led to record-breaking floods in parts of the Midwest, and high waters in most of the rest. That flooding puts a heavy load on communities, including the city of Clarksville, which is one of the last Mississippi River communities without a levee.

Assessing the costs of the Iowa floods

Missouri: Flooding Farmland to Save a Town

The World

Riparian Buffers

The World

Longing for New Orleans

The World

China faces desertification

Environment

Decades of clearing forests, overusing water resources, and climate change have brought desert conditions to what was once Chinese farmland. The World’s Mary Kay Magistad reports from Ningxia, China.

The World

Indonesia’s vanishing rice farms

Environment

Rice paddies across Asia are being replaced by golf courses and luxury hotels and workers are leaving the fields for factory jobs, as Rebecca Henschke reports on an endangered species – the rice farmers of Indonesia.

The World

The price of rice

The BBC’s Jonathan Head reports from Manila on the steeply rising price of rice around the world.