CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — Waves of torrential rainfall drenched California into the new year. Snowpacks in the Sierra Nevada Mountains have swelled to more than 200 percent their normal size, and snowfall across the rest of the Colorado River Basin is trending above average, too. While the much-needed waterContinue Reading
Typically, when an environmental disaster hits America there is wall to wall media coverage. If it’s a flood, we see the same images gracing our screens: houses, roads, schools, and cars underwater, once thriving neighborhoods washed away. If it’s a fire, hurricane, or tornado the coverage is similar—you talk toContinue Reading
Senators Hyde-Smith and Wicker join other Mississippians who want the pumps finished as Congressman Thompson continues to waffle. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said in 2020 that the Yazoo Backwater area experienced significant flooding during nine of the ten previous years, and under the Trump Administration funding had beenContinue Reading
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Jonathan Remo, associate professor in the School of Earth Systems and Sustainability, left, works with Cecilia Albert-Black, an undergraduate student in geology, right, and doctoral student Joseph Krienert to take samples along the Mississippi River. A team from Southern Illinois University Carbondale co-led by Remo and Liliana Lefticariu, associate professorContinue Reading
The main entrance to the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman Mississippi Department of Corrections An investigation by NRDC and our partners at the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) reveals persistent and continuing drinking water and wastewater violations at the notorious Parchman prison in Mississippi. Individuals incarcerated at Parchman have longContinue Reading
In the minds of many coast dwellers, the American middle exists only in reference to their own condition: flyovers, breadbaskets. Middle-ness isn’t a state of being in and of itself but rather an aberrated refraction of the coasts’ sparkling prisms. For those who live in the middle, their existence andContinue Reading
States along the Mississippi River may soon get some federal help in restoring water quality, fighting off invasive carp and defending against floods along the great river. U.S. Rep. Betty McCollum and a handful of lawmakers will ask Congress to set aside up to $350 million a year to restoreContinue Reading
Picture an hourglass lying on its side, the top resting in the Mississippi River to capture the sands of time floating downstream from the Midwest. The sand flows through the neck of the hourglass and empties into Barataria Basin, where scientists predict it will create and nourish freshwater marshes andContinue Reading
