Federal and state agencies spend millions of dollars every year to keep destructive invasive carp out of the Great Lakes. Meanwhile, at least 25 destructive species — like water fleas and bloody red shrimp — are inching closer to the Mississippi River Basin.
A climate study released during one of the hottest summers on record predicts a 125-degree “extreme heat belt” will stretch across a quarter of the country by 2053.
Climate change is redrawing the agricultural map of the United States. As corn becomes less economically viable with changing Midwestern weather patterns, farmers look to a more diverse future.
En Michigan, a los trabajadores que son indocumentados y se lesionan en el trabajo se les niegan las prestaciones por pérdida de salarios, basándose "únicamente" en su estatus migratorio, según una demanda.
The so-called dead zone where the Mississippi River dumps into the Gulf of Mexico, an area of low oxygen that cannot sustain life, clocked in at 3,275 square miles this year — below the recent average and smaller than what was previously predicted, but almost twice the target goal set by the Gulf of
Minnesota has struggled to reduce the farm pollution that runs into the Mississippi River watershed. So crop breeders at the University of Minnesota are working on new perennial and winter annual crops to suck up that pollution before it escapes. Food scientists and marketers are trying to develop u
The Mississippi River is clean as it emerges in northern Minnesota and heads south. Then it meets the Crow River, the first major agricultural river emptying into it.
Mississippi River watershed communities like Bay City, Wisconsin are feeling the effects of environmental degradation. Advocates hope a proposed federal funding program, based on a successful initiative in the Great Lakes, could change this.
In Michigan, workers who are undocumented and get injured on the job are being denied wage-loss benefits based “solely” on their immigration status, according to a lawsuit.
Water utilities have never been required to thoroughly inventory lead pipes except in a crisis. Health experts warn problems with these “underground poisonous straws” can arise out of the blue.
The report shows increasingly wetter conditions in the Upper Mississippi over the past few decades, a trend that — spurred by climate change and land-use practices — looks likely to continue.
