The Big Sunflower Ecosystem Restoration project will focus on the Sunflower River, near Blaine, Mississippi. Officials said the region has suffered from reduced base flows, dropping below 50 cubic ...

Rainfall can relieve low ... River and made its way to the Mississippi, it only boosted the river’s flow for a few weeks before slipping back down to critical levels. “When you get these big ...

Barge operators can find it difficult to navigate around sandbars when the river is so low, making them pause travel. The same goes for other big ships traveling the Mississippi. In the past ...

Biden hopes the same waterways that spurred westward expansion can cut greenhouse gas emissions. Environmentalists aren’t so sure.

The enormous Mississippi River, the 13th largest river in the world ... we expect an increase in both floods and very low flow years going forward. The 2022 flash drought is a recent example ...

Nearly 30 percent of Americans live in the Mississippi River Basin. Water from 31 states and two Canadian provinces ultimately makes its way into the Mississippi. Because of its size and reach ...

Low water levels for ... it’s hard to improve these big river conditions,” he said. “And it's certainly hard to do it quickly.” Now, Ford is focused on the winter months, which can be a time when the ...

After another winter with not much snow, there's little spring flood risk on the upper Mississippi ... the river saw that last summer. Although last spring's flood risk was also low, thunderstorms ...

The river moves more than half of all U.S. grain exports but the drought has reduced the flow ... low water, but it is not going to completely alleviate it," said Kai Roth of the Lower Mississippi ...

When the wedge first appeared in 2022 and 2023, most experts pointed to an ongoing drought in the Midwest as the culprit, observing how low rainfall in the Mississippi River Basin and its tributaries ...