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As atmospheric rivers pounded the U.S. West Coast last winter, scientists deployed increasingly advanced observing tools over ...
The Mississippi River is considered the most endangered in the U.S. due to uncertainty over the Federal Emergency Management ...
Trump's call to abolish FEMA as Mississippi sees more frequent, extreme flooding, prompts group to name river the nation's most endangered waterway.
American Rivers, a nonprofit environmental advocacy group, said the Mississippi River in recent years has faced “increasingly ...
With budget losses to both the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Army Corps of Engineers, mitigation grant programs ...
The Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk, a journalism collaborative based at the University of Missouri School of ...
The river is threatened primarily by FEMA's uncertain future, said American Rivers, an environmental group based in ...
The list calls attention to the threats rivers face and prioritizes those for which the public can influence policies that ...
While the science is clear – wetlands have lots of benefits and we know how to build more of them – the future is not. The ...
Yazoo County, located north of Jackson, Mississippi, experienced the largest percent population loss between July 2023 and July 2024. The county's population went from 24,603 in 2023 to 23,024 in ...
It’s the only place east of the Mississippi River where the U.S. has detonated a nuclear device. In the mid-1960s, federal officials used the salt dome to test underground nuclear explosions.