Mississippi Delta Could Vanish Soon, Scientists Warn
The Bird's Foot Delta, a crucial ecological and economic hub, faces an uncertain future amid rising seas and dwindling sediment.
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The Largest River Delta In USA Could Soon Be Lost To The Sea
The Mississippi River Delta is under siege – a multi-pronged attack of sediment erosion, rising sea levels, and flooding is putting immense strain on the wetlands between the Mississippi River and the ...
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John Kennedy to chair Appropriations subcommittee
The subcommittee oversees spending in several agencies, such as the Department of Energy, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, ...
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US: Mississippi Delta Urgently Needs Better Cervical Cancer Care
The Mississippi state and US federal governments are failing to take steps to prevent cervical cancer deaths for Black women ...
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Tour highlights race-based poverty and inequity across Mississippi Delta region
The SPLC’s Mississippi state office embarked on a multicity bus tour to hear directly from community members their struggles with advocacy and civic groups and state leaders.
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Restoring the Mississippi River Delta
The Mississippi River Delta is an economic engine for the state as well as the ... is needed to restore Louisiana's vanishing coast – to help buffer and protect the region from future storms and ...
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LA - Threats facing fragile lower Mississippi river delta to be addressed – and possibly mitigated – by five-year, $22 million research consortium
The lower Mississippi River delta is facing unprecedented threats ... on jobs and industry within the region. The team will include 38 investigators from research institutions and the National ...
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Nonprofit works to support crops grown in the Mississippi Delta
Delta Harvest is partnering with the World Wildlife Fund to create a network of women and Black-owned specialty rice farms.
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The Mississippi River Commission and the Army Corps of Engineers
Since then, every generation of settlers to the region has attempted to control the river by building levees, or protective, raised embankments, alongside it. Prior to 1882, Mississippi Delta ...
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River Delta stock illustrations
River systems and drainage basin educational structure vector... River systems and drainage basin educational structure vector illustration. Geological description with water flow from source to sea.