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Mississippi River projected to reach flood stage on Saturday; officials warn levee landowners to be prepared
According to officials, the Mississippi River flooding is expected to reach flood stage for the first time since 2019. Courtesy photo of City of Tallulah ...
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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 ...
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.
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Down the Drain: A watershed moment for America’s greatest wetlands
The Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk, a journalism collaborative based at the University of Missouri School of ...
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Mammoth break in Mississippi's banks south of New Orleans is building new land, study says
The break, known as Neptune Pass, has grown so large it is comparable to the 10th-largest river in North America and the ...
Mississippi River flooding causes hunting closures on MS public lands, more expected
Three state wildlife management areas and one national wildlife refuge have hunting closures in place due to flooding. Two more areas may close.
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 ...
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 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 ...
‘A living laboratory’: An accidental delta taught Louisiana scientists how to rebuild wetlands
Research on Wax Lake’s land-building success has been enlisted in the fight against the rapid disappearance of the coast everywhere else in the state.
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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 ...
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 ...