New Orleans City Business

As saltwater flows up the Mississippi River again, the region looks for permanent solutions

BOOTHVILLE – Just off the Mississippi River in southeast Louisiana, an 18-wheeler trailer filled with white cylinders whirred as workers prepared to turn the machine off for the day. The truck houses ...
Yahoo

Where does the Mississippi River start, where is it deepest, answers to key questions about one of Wisconsin's most important waterways

Wisconsin has one of the world's most important bodies of water right next door. Nope, we're not talking about Lake Michigan, or Lake Superior. We're talking about the Mississippi River. The river ...
WXYZ

Ida caused Mississippi River to temporarily flow backwards as hurricane hit Louisiana

NEW ORLEANS, La. — When Hurricane Ida hit Louisiana as a Category 4 storm on Sunday, it temporarily reversed the flow of the Mississippi River. Ricky Boyette, a spokesman for the U.S. Army Corps of ...
JSTOR Daily

Long-term water color and flow trends in the Mississippi River Headwaters, 1944–2010

Intensification of brown color in surface waters has been observed over several decades in many areas. We examined a 64-yr daily record (1947–2010) of visual water color, a measure of chromophoric ...