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Wisconsin is finally drought-free after a year. Here's what that means for the state.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel via Yahoo News· 12 hours agoThe latest map from the U.S. Drought Monitor, released on Thursday, showed no more drought...
Mississippi River Flooding is Pushing People Out of Their Homes, Data Shows
Insurance Journal· 6 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· 4 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 ...
For shrinking Mississippi River towns, frequent floods worsen fortunes
St. Louis Post-Dispatch· 7 days agoFlooding has pushed people out of their homes near the Mississippi River at a roughly 30% higher...
Idaho Falls gears up for Melaleuca Freedom Celebration fireworks show
Idaho State Journal· 6 days agoPaid for by Ball Ventures, Snake River Landing has the only amphitheater in the U.S. designed for...
East Prairie's annual Tour de Corn, Main Street Party set for a return
Standard Democrat· 6 days agoAccording to Emily Dahlbeck, Tour de Corn Committee member, this year marks the 22nd event. “Tour de Corn started in 2001 by local community organizers and a farmer who thought it would be great ...
Think cicadas are weird? Check out superfans, who eat the bugs, use them in art and even striptease
WKBT La Crosse· 3 hours agoMayumi Barrack sees a pair of mating periodical cicadas getting together, whips out her phone, says,...
From Western Expansion To Climate Change: An Abbreviated History Of Water
Forbes· 5 days agoIn an 1878 report to Congress and subsequent writings, explorer and scientist John Wesley Powell...
Maryland's tornado risk: Conditions are riper, but rarity complicates outlook
Howard County Times, Columbia, Md. via Yahoo News· 1 day agoJun. 17—As the world reached 12 consecutive months of record global heat, the nine tornadoes that touched down earlier this month in Maryland raised the question of whether the state's residents ...
Federal funds, post-pandemic trends help Illinois Quad-Cities reimagine downtowns
Quad-City Times· 2 days agoAlong one side of the Mississippi River, three cities are reimagining what downtowns could be....