MinnPost1d
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 ...
The project to repair a flood wall in Helena-West Helena remained at a standstill after a meeting Friday
A $20 million project to repair a 1,600 foot flood wall in Helena-West Helena remained at a standstill after a meeting Friday ...
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 News1d
Recent rains improve river traffic
Recent rain in the Midwest has helped improve the flow of the Mississippi River. Lou Dell’Orco is Chief of Operations for the ...
The Telegraph4d
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 Sentinel26d
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 ...
Mississippi Gulf Coast will have its first oyster season since 2018
After years of setbacks Mississippi Gulf Coast is finally set to reopen its oyster season the first since 2018 ...
WCVB Channel 5 Boston19d
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 outburst floods each year that cause inundation along Mendenhall Lake and ...
NPR Illinois12d
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 ...
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 ...
KCUR 89.3 FM12d
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 ...