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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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USACE Vicksburg District adjusts Steele Bayou structure gates to minimize flooding in Yazoo basin
In response to rising water levels on the Mississippi River, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Vicksburg District ...
Mississippi named US' most endangered river as flooding grows, Trump calls for killing FEMA
Trump's call to abolish FEMA as Mississippi sees more frequent, extreme flooding, prompts group to name river the nation's most endangered waterway.
9 Impossible Rivers and Lakes That 'Defy the Rules'
"These hydrologic oddities illustrate how much we have still to learn about Earth's dynamic surface," researchers said in a ...
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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 ...
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Want to know if wetlands, so important to the environment, are healthy? Look to the birds.
Wetlands across the Mississippi River basin, vital for hundreds of bird ... would negotiate easements with landowners and then remove drainage tiles, ditches and dams to restore the natural ...
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.