Sara Shipley Hiles

Columbia

Environmental Journalist at Freelance

Environmental journalist + journalism educator at Mizzou. Exec dir, @agwaterdesk. Board member, @SEJorg. Priors incl: @stltoday, @courierjournal, @NOLAnews

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Articles

Floods, droughts, and news deserts

May 22, 2024 | linkedin.com | Sara Shipley Hiles

Here's an excerpt from the Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk weekly newsletter. want more? Sign up here! Spring showers have brought an end to drought in most of Missouri after two especially dry years, but pockets of drought persist throughout the Mississippi River Basin. My home state has been more prone to flooding than drought. I grew up near the Missouri River’s wide floodplains in Marthasville, Missouri.
Missouri, Florida Journalism Professors Join Classes on Multistate Fertilizer Investigation

Aug 27, 2023 | sej.org | Cynthia Barnett |Sara Shipley Hiles

Students traveled aboard the research vessel Acadiana into Barataria Bay off coastal Louisiana to examine marine creatures that can survive in the oxygen-depleted zone caused by upstream runoff. Photo: Sara Shipley Hiles.