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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

These two impacts of the climate crisis are literally clashing against one another in Louisiana at the mouth of the Mississippi River, where low flow is allowing saltwater from the Gulf of Mexico ...