News tagged with mississippi river valley
Lawsuits against EPA target nutrients in US waters
(AP) -- Environmental groups are suing the Environmental Protection Agency to force the federal government to curb an overdose of nutrients from farms and cities that end up in the nation's rivers, lakes and coastal waters. ...
Mar 15, 2012 |
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Confirmed: Sunflower domesticated in US, not Mexico
New genetic evidence presented by a team led by Indiana University biology doctoral graduate Benjamin Blackman confirms the eastern United States as the single geographic domestication site of modern sunflowers. ...
Aug 15, 2011 |
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Forecast predicts biggest Gulf dead zone ever
Scientists predict this year's "dead zone" of low-oxygen water in the northern Gulf of Mexico will be the largest in history - about the size of Lake Erie - because of more runoff from the flooded Mississippi River valley.
Jun 15, 2011 |
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Spring flooding? Not this year, US forecasters say
At least it's a dry heat. The federal government's spring weather forecast offers no respite from warmer weather, but the country should get a break from the spring flooding that's hit the last four years.
Mar 15, 2012 |
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Effects of flooding on Cairo, Ill.
When faced with a choice between a deluge or a controlled deluge in May 2011 that would protect the city of Cairo, Illinois, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers chose the latter by ordering an intentional breach ...
Mar 09, 2012 |
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Study: Forested riparian zones important to nitrogen control, stream health
Human activities from agriculture to fossil fuel consumption have resulted in high levels of nitrates in many streams and rivers; now a new study suggests that nurturing riparian zone forests may be a key in maintaining healthy ...
Feb 21, 2012 |
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Efforts to control the 'Mighty Mississippi' result in flooded farmland and permanent damage
When the water in the Mississippi River rose to 58 feet with a forecast of 60 feet or higher in May 2011, the emergency plan to naturally or intentionally breach the levees, established over 80 years prior, ...
Jan 19, 2012 |
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A novel strategy to reduce farm runoff will be tested starting in Minnesota
Minnesota will be the nation's first test site for a novel federal program designed to stem the flow of agricultural pollution that is strangling some of the country's great waterways, including the Chesapeake Bay, the Gulf ...
Jan 17, 2012 |
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Billion-dollar weather disasters smash US record
(AP) -- America's wild weather year has set another record: a dozen billion-dollar catastrophes.
Dec 07, 2011 |
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NASA releases visual tour of Earth's fires
NASA has released a series of new satellite data visualizations that show tens of millions of fires detected worldwide from space since 2002. The visualizations show fire observations made by the MODerate ...
Oct 20, 2011 |
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Americans recall personal impacts of Jobs' vision
(AP) -- Steve Jobs urged people to think different, and wowed them when his own different thinking put thousands of songs in their pockets, the power of the Internet at their fingertips and a whole world ...
Oct 07, 2011 |
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NASA satellite rainmap shows extent of Tropical Storm Lee's heavy rainfall
NASA has a rain gauge flying in space called TRMM, and data from that satellite has been used to create a map of the massive rainfall generated by landfalling Tropical Storm Lee.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 09, 2011 |
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Researcher finds largest martian channels most likely formed by volcanic activity (w/ video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Since the Mars Viking missions of the ’70s, humans have compared the topography of the Red Planet’s surface to their home and imagined a world that once contained flowing rivers that ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 11, 2011 |
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