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For shrinking Mississippi River towns, frequent floods worsen fortunes
St. Louis Post-Dispatch· 5 days agoDevastating flooding, driven in part by climate change, is taking an especially damaging toll on...
Review: Violence? Injustice? Math? It's all here in a history of 'The Great River,' the Mississippi
New Hampshire Union Leader· 2 days agoIn the mid-16th century, Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto and his men traveled across North...
Takeaways From AP Examination of Flooding's Effect Along Mississippi River
US News & World Report· 6 days agoCommerce along the Mississippi River has evolved over the past century at the expense of many once-thriving river towns. The data came ...
For shrinking Mississippi River towns, frequent floods worsen fortunes
Associated Press· 6 days agoDevastating flooding, driven in part by climate change, is taking an especially damaging toll on communities that once thrived along the banks of America’s most storied river
How the United States Laid Claim to the Mississippi River, One Mile at a Time
Smithsonian Magazine· 3 days agoOn October 27, 1815, Prospect Robbins arrived by boat at the point in the alluvial swamps where the Arkansas and Mississippi rivers meet. Both surveyors were veterans—Brown ...
Takeaways from AP examination of flooding's effect along Mississippi River
U-T San Diego· 6 days agoCommerce along the Mississippi River has evolved over the past century at the expense of many once-thriving river towns. The data came ...
Early Arkansas hunting wars | Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette· 1 day agoThe borders of the Arkansas River may be termed the paradise of our territory for the wandering...
Takeaways from AP examination of flooding's effect along Mississippi River - The Morning Sun
The Morning Sun· 6 days agoFlooding has pushed people out of their homes near the Mississippi River at a roughly 30% higher rate than the U.S. as a whole, according to data provided exclusively to The Associated Press by the …
For shrinking Mississippi River towns, frequent floods worsen fortunes
Erie News Now Plus· 6 days agoBy MICHAEL PHILLIS, JIM SALTER and CAMILLE FASSETT Associated Press
Meet Sophie Marie; the Fall River Fire Department's new comfort dog in training
Gannett via AOL· 5 days agoFALL RIVER — It’s been a long journey in the short life of six-month old Sophie Marie going from a ...