Plaquemines Parish surrounds the last 70 miles of the Mississippi River, making it susceptible to saltwater intrusion from ...
This is the third year in a row that saltwater from the Gulf of Mexico has crept up the Mississippi River. This phenomenon, ...
Exporters have shipped soybeans from the busiest U.S. grains port at the fastest rate in nearly four years after rain raised ...
As of Nov. 11, 2024, the water clarity (as measured by a Secchi tube) still has not returned to expected values for this time ...
Meanwhile, more scrutiny is focused on how the expanded farm field drainage systems have dramatically increased the flow of ...
leading to a risk of flash flooding and debris flow. The heavy precipitation is due to an atmospheric river, which can carry more water than the Mississippi River. Blizzard conditions are expected ...
They are responsible for producing heavy rain and snow, especially when pushed up against mountain ranges like the Cascades and Sierra Nevada. A well-known type of atmospheric river is called a ...
Atmospheric rivers are relatively long, narrow regions in the atmosphere – like rivers in the sky – that transport most of ...
Already studied and analyzed for years, the diversion near Ironton would transfer up to 75,000 cubic feet per second of Mississippi ... about 5.6% of the river’s annual flow.