DULUTH -- In canning jars, cattle troughs and 100 lakes across Minnesota, scientists are working at breakneck speed to unravel the relationship between the state's iconic wild rice plant and something ...

A wild rice bed grows Sept. 12 on the Upper Mississippi River near Goose Island County Park in the town of Shelby, Wis. After disappearing for decades, wild rice is rebounding on parts of the upper ...

Wild rice grows in shallow waterways in the Great Lakes region and parts of Canada. It’s a plant that holds important ecological and cultural significance, but it’s been on the decline since the early ...

Environmental groups and Indigenous people say the state should enforce the sulfate standard, but mine workers and ...

SUAMICO - As Cindy Reffke looks out across the Barkhausen Waterfowl Preserve, she imagines the wild rice plants that have disappeared, but are now desperately needed to restore the environment and ...

Where does wild rice grow? Meet people who protect manoomin rice, a culturally critical plant, and the waters that sustain it. Leanna Goose (Anishinaabe) remembers wild rice, or manoomin, being served ...

Roger Labine uses ricing sticks, or knockers, to harvest wild rice on Lake Tawas. Every year as summer ends, Indigenous Michiganders head out onto lakes and rivers to collect wild rice, a staple food ...

TOWN OF SHELBY - If she closes her eyes, Danelle Larson can still remember how the stretch of Mississippi River in front of her looked as recent as a decade ago: nothing but open, muddy water. Today, ...