The Mississippi River basin has gotten a report card from a ... Louis Public Radio spoke with Heath Kelsey of the University of Maryland's Center for Environmental Science, who was the project ...

New research shows that typically, less than 10% of land-building alluvium reaches the Bird’s Foot Delta region, the ...

We compared the map in question to those published in scientific literature depicting the watershed, drainage basin and tributaries of the Mississippi River. Though there were similarities between ...

‘More fuel to work with’ In the wake of July’s floods, the Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk ... The river essentially acts as an urban drainage ditch, converted largely into ...

This story is a product of the Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk ... Des Peres in south St. Louis in December of 2023. The drainage ditch fills up with water during heavy rains and prolonged ...

The climate is growing hotter and wetter, and more prone to dumping massive rains on communities whose creeks, streams and drainage ... the Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk – a ...

Last year the river crested at 16.48 feet. 8.) Mississippi River, third largest drainage basin in the world The Mississippi River drains 41 percent of the 48 contiguous United States and the basin ...

And in truth, the Mississippi River connects more than just 10 states. Its drainage basin is massive: all the rain and snow that falls across 31 states and two Canadian provinces ends up in the ...

Much of the Mississippi River basin is getting wetter ... rains and flash flooding on communities whose creeks, streams and drainage systems are not equipped to handle such volatile waters.