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For shrinking Mississippi River towns, frequent floods worsen fortunes
Associated Press via AOL· 4 days agoFlooding has pushed people out of their homes near the Mississippi River at a roughly 30% higher...
Takeaways from AP examination of flooding's effect along Mississippi River
San Francisco Chronicle· 4 days agoCommerce along the Mississippi River has evolved over the past century at the expense of many...
How the United States Laid Claim to the Mississippi River, One Mile at a Time
Smithsonian Magazine· 1 day 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 ...
Massive "dead zone" to form in Gulf of Mexico, scientists warn
CBS News· 1 day agoNearly 6,000 square miles - an area roughly the size of Connecticut - will become a "dead zone" for...
Father's Day weekend will be hot in much of the US. Then comes a dangerous heat wave.
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 3 hours agoBut from a meteorologist's perspective, summer has already started, Andy Chiuppi, a senior...
Scientists make troubling prediction for size of Gulf of Mexico ‘dead zone’ this summer
Biloxi Sun Herald via Yahoo News· 10 hours agoThe National Oceanic and Atmospheric prediction is based on the amount of nutrients monitored by the...
From Western Expansion To Climate Change: An Abbreviated History Of Water
Forbes· 2 days agoIn an 1878 report to Congress and subsequent writings, explorer and scientist John Wesley Powell...
Louisiana Congressman Garret Graves won't run for reelection
Shreveport Times | The Times via Yahoo News· 1 day ago"This committee is the throttle for federal action on traffic, bridges, railroads and airports – and Louisiana priorities like ports and Mississippi River