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FORGOTTEN HISTORY: 3 - Caught on Camera

Historically Low Water Levels In The Mississippi Reveal Shipwreck From 1915

Patrick Ford was walking along the banks of the Mississippi River when he spotted the remains of an old shipwreck.

Zenger

Mississippi River Basin adapts as climate change brings extreme rain and flooding

Climate change-fueled hurricanes and sea-level rise get a lot of attention, but Mississippi River Basin communities also are experiencing the effects of global warming.

WEKU

Mississippi River's low water level reveals shipwreck

A shipwreck has emerged along the banks of the Mississippi River in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, as water levels plummet — threatening to reach record lows in some areas

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Mysterious rock formation emerges from water for first time as river levels drop

Tower Rock in Missouri is usually waterlocked by the swirling currents of the massive Mississippi - but one of worst droughts in living memory has led to the new path

Daily Mirror

Barge traffic bottlenecks and low water on Mississippi River loom during crop harvest

Joe Serbus farms outside the town of Franklin, Minnesota, near the winding Minnesota River. The water levels have been low for a while now, but it's the other river — across the state — that he's worried about.

Tribune News Service

Barges Hit Bottom Of Mississippi River As Water Levels Approach Historic Low

The supply chain across the nation's heartland is facing significant constraints that could have far-reaching consequences into the winter, starting with farmers in the Plains and expanding all the way to the overall economy of the United States

Zenger

The Most Expensive Natural Disasters in US History

The most expensive natural disasters in U.S. history have come from wind, fire, water and drought.

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How Minnesota's little, polluted Crow River clouds the Mississippi

COSMOS, Minn. — Carrie Jennings flits around the South Fork Crow River like a water bug in the old one-seat canoe she bought years ago for $100, then pauses midstream to peer down at the brown water.

Tribune News Service

Hero teen rescues four people from drowning in Mississippi river: ‘I can’t let none of these folks die’

Teens ‘followed GPS’ into water before vehicle sunk

The Independent UK

Great Salt Lake hits new historic low for 2nd time in a year

The Great Salt Lake has hit a new historic low for the second time in less than a year as the ongoing megadrought worsened by climate change continues to shrink the largest natural lake west of the Mississippi

The Independent UK

Illinois town braces for future without steel plant

GRANITE CITY, Illinois — News got around quickly in this town across the Mississippi from St. Louis: The steel mill's death knell was sounding again, and this time, the end might really be near.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

A fast-swimming carp in the Mississippi rings alarm bells for fight against invasive fish

This spring, an invasive silver carp bolted up the Mississippi River — right to the edge of where a researcher says the state has a chance to block the species from advancing any further.

Tribune News Service

'It is a Minnesota thing': Canoe racing's popular past runs direct line to present

When paddlers of all means glide through the Mississippi River for a weekend of canoe races in early summer, they'll dip into an activity that has coursed through state waters for generations.

Tribune News Service

Gulf Coast, Mississippi River cities eager for flood funding

Cities on the Louisiana coast and Mississippi River are hoping the infrastructure law will bring badly needed funding to fortify levees, locks and other flood protection as climate change makes hurricanes stronger and wetter

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Race is on to save the Great Salt Lake: Will it be enough?

The largest natural lake west of the Mississippi is shrinking past its lowest levels in recorded history, raising fears about toxic dust, ecological collapse and economic consequences

The Independent UK

Army Corps to spend $732M on Mississippi River lock upgrade

The U.S. Army Corps will spend $732 million to expand a congested lock and dam in Missouri

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