East St. Louis residents struggle in flooding aftermath, say city should do more
I don’t have a choice but to deal with it,” one resident said. “I don’t have the money to move nowhere else right now.” ...
Hard-luck Mississippi Gulf Coast will have its first oyster season since 2018
BILOXI, Miss. -- The Mississippi Gulf Coast, battered by a mammoth oil spill more than a decade ago and left bereft by years ...
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Repairs require lock and dam closures along the Mississippi
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is working to improve four of its locks and dams through a Consolidated Lock Closure, ...
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On the Wisconsin-Iowa Border, the Mississippi River is Eroding Sacred Indigenous Mounds
This story is a product of the Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk, an independent reporting network based at the ...
Who is Chokwe Antar Lumumba? Jackson, Mississippi mayor faces federal charge
Lumumba's mayoral stint followed his father's, Chokwe Lumumba, who was elected as Ward 2's councilman in 2009, then as ...
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Working to Tame the Mighty Mississippi Over the Years
Coping with the titanic force of America’s largest river is one of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ perpetual ...
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One of North America's densest collections of Indigenous mounds is at risk. What it means.
Today, though, that river has significantly eroded the bank ... the land on which the mounds were built floods seasonally when the Mississippi floods. Sometimes, the mounds themselves are ...
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Moderate flooding is expected from a glacial dam outburst in Alaska's capital city
The report outlines the droughts in the Americas led to the Mississippi and Amazon river ... it has released glacier lake ...
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Upper Mississippi River refuge celebrates 100 years of protection for fish, wildlife and habitat
A flood in 2019 lasted for 90 days ... Ed Britton points at an expanse of shallow water in the Spring Lake Unit in Illinois ...
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NJ is no stranger to natural disasters. See the list of the worst floods, storms, fires
Still, these rarely match the scale of historic large-scale disasters, such as the Galveston hurricane of 1900 and the Mississippi River floods of 1927 and 1993. Blizzards stand out as an ...
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Upper Mississippi River refuge celebrates 100 years of protection for fish, wildlife and habitat
A flood in 2019 lasted for 90 days ... of shallow water in the Spring Lake Unit in Illinois in the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge. About 100 miles downriver in Illinois ...