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New research shows that typically, less than 10% of land-building alluvium reaches the Bird’s Foot Delta region, the ...
New research shows that typically, less than 10% of land-building alluvium reaches the Bird’s Foot Delta region, the ...
A conservation organization has named the Mississippi River as the most endangered river ... Clark said farm drainage systems have exacerbated flooding and pollution. “We have millions and ...
Officials in Vicksburg and Warren County continue to prepare for flooding from the Mississippi River. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, as of Friday morning, the ...
According to the National Wildlife Federation, nearly 20 million people rely on the Mississippi River Basin for daily drinking water. The river also helps support a billion-dollar industry that ...
A conservation group on Wednesday named the Mississippi River the “most endangered river of 2025,” citing threats to abolish the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), which plays a key ...
A prolonged flood event is beginning to unfold along the lower Mississippi River, a consequence of the widespread heavy rainfall that drenched the river basin in early April ... Due to the flat ...
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District reports that its dam projects in the Cumberland River Basin are operating ... the flows from 75% of the drainage area above Nashville to zero ...
GULFPORT, Miss. (WLOX) - 35 members of the Mississippi River Basin Panel visited the Institute for Marine Mammal Studies on Wednesday to learn more about South Mississippi’s marine environment.
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 ...
Dry conditions across the Ohio River basin, which feeds the Mississippi, have worsened already low water levels at the larger river, said David Welch, a hydrologist with the Lower Mississippi ...
Seasonal hypoxia in the northern Gulf of Mexico has been linked to increased nitrogen fluxes from the Mississippi and Atchafalaya River Basins, though recent evidence ... cropping and ...