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What could FEMA cuts mean for communities along the Mississippi River?
An April report by a nonprofit environmental advocacy group named the Mississippi River as the most endangered in the United ...
First-ever National Mississippi River Day frames the river as 'the great connector'
Gov. Tony Evers signed a proclamation declaring June 2 National Mississippi River Day in Wisconsin, saying the river helps ...
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Mississippi River loses most of its ‘white gold’ before reaching Gulf
Sand, silt and clay is essential to rebuilding — or, at this point, maintaining — the fragile coastline that has been ...
Satellite measures river flow waves for the first time
The researchers assessed waves on the Colorado River in Texas, the Ocmulgee River in Georgia and the Yellowstone River in ...
The Colorado River Basin has lost as much groundwater as the entire volume of Lake Mead
Deep below the surface of the ground in one of the driest parts of the country, there is a looming problem: The water is ...
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Mississippi River loses most of its sediment—and land building ability—before reaching the Gulf
New research shows that typically, less than 10% of land-building alluvium reaches the Bird’s Foot Delta region, the ...