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On the Wisconsin-Iowa border, the Mississippi River is eroding sacred Indigenous mounds
The Effigy Mounds are one of the densest collections still existing in North America, but the Mississippi River is eating ...
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.” ...
Brownfield Ag News21h
Recent rains improve river traffic
Dell’Orco says the Mississippi River has persistently been in low water conditions for about three years, so the rise is a ...
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 ...
The Telegraph3d
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, ...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel25d
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 ...
KSBW The Central Coast17d
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 ...
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 ...
NorthJersey.com29d
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 ...
NPR Illinois11d
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 ...
KCUR 89.3 FM11d
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 ...