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Mississippi River named most endangered in U.S. Why water quality is not the issue.
The list calls attention to the threats rivers face and prioritizes those for which the public can influence policies that ...
Is the Mississippi River endangered? New ranking says iconic river at risk.
The river is threatened primarily by FEMA's uncertain future, said American Rivers, an environmental group based in ...
Want to know if wetlands, so important to the environment, are healthy? Look to the birds.
Over the last 20 years, wetlands have been losing their most ardent advocates, especially in states like Minnesota, South ...
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A Mississippi flood relief project could harm 90,000 acres of valuable wetlands. Is it worth the tradeoff?
Anderson Jones first remembers his home flooding in 1973, when water from the nearby Mississippi River blanketed his family’s ...
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Conservation group names Mississippi River ‘most endangered,’ cites proposed FEMA cuts
American Rivers, a nonprofit environmental advocacy group, said the Mississippi River in recent years has faced “increasingly ...
Tampa Free Press on MSN5d
Lower Mississippi River Braces For Weeks Of Slow-Moving Flooding Following Early April Deluge
A prolonged flood event is beginning to unfold along the lower Mississippi River, a consequence of the widespread heavy ...
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On This Date: The Great Mississippi River Flood Of 1927 Ramped Up
In mid-April 1927, 98 years ago this week, another deluge of torrential rain tipped the Mississippi River basin into a historic flood that remains among the most destructive in U.S. history.
Kankakee Marsh has long been controversial, author says
Draining the Kankakee Marsh came after controversy and a spectacular failed attempt. Controversy over the effects continues ...
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‘A living laboratory’: An accidental delta taught Louisiana scientists how to rebuild wetlands
While the science is clear – wetlands have lots of benefits and we know how to build more of them – the future is not. The ...
One Man’s Quest to Reforest the Rio Grande Valley
The Tamaulipan thorn forest once covered 1 million acres on both sides of the US-Mexico border. Restoring even a fraction of ...