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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Across a wide range of temperate river systems, riverine nitrogen flux has been correlated with net anthropogenic nitrogen input (NANI) to the drainage ... to the Mississippi River basin increased ...

In total, parts or all of 31 states and two Canadian provinces drain into the Mississippi River, creating a drainage basin that is around 1.25 million square miles in size according to the U.S ...

Figure 3 shows a dynamic Mississippi River drainage basin that approaches twice its current size at the LGM, and shrinks and swells in response to the evolving ice-sheet geometry and GIA.

The river passes through 10 states: Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana. Its 1.2 million square mile drainage basin includes 32 ...

In the wake of July’s floods, the Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk – a journalism ... The river essentially acts as an urban drainage ditch, converted largely into a straightened ...

A new analysis of federal data shows that average annual rainfall has increased as much as 8 inches throughout much of the Mississippi River basin since ... streams and drainage systems are ...