Articles Tagged: Mississippi River

A chemical leak in The National Mississippi River Museum and Aquarium in Dubuque last week has resulted in the death of two-thirds of the fish in the museum’s Gulf of Mexico exhibit, according to a news release from the museum.

On Wednesday, mayors from the Midwestern Corn Belt joined mayors from Louisiana to sign the Mississippi River Ports Cooperative Endeavor Agreement. The agreement is the first to ensure cooperation between the inland ports in the heart of the corn belt and the coastal ports of Louisiana that export 60 percent of the nation’s agricultural products.

The results showed that Latino voters who live in states that border the Mississippi River -- including Iowa -- care deeply about the environment and advocating for policy changes.

Midwestern states are spending millions every year to prevent Asian carp from invading rivers and lakes, but the fish have established a home in the Mississippi River basin, and experts say they are here to stay. One way to get the silver carp population under control seems relatively simple — eat the carp.

The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse library has amassed an informal holding place for photos, maps, journals and field notes telling the story of the upper Mississippi River and the Driftless region that surrounds it, including northeast Iowa.

Within NOAA’s 38 years of measuring the Gulf of Mexico “dead zone,” this year’s assessment marks the 12th-largest area of low- to no oxygen, which can kill fish and marine life.

This summer’s “dead zone,” a low-oxygen area where the river empties into the sea, could span 5,827 square miles across the Gulf of Mexico. Louisiana has the power to call for change.

Worsening local effects on health and recreation in states like Minnesota and Wisconsin are spurring action on problems that also cause the Gulf of Mexico’s chronic “dead zone.”

Sluggish progress on reducing nutrient runoff into the Chesapeake Bay marks an inconvenient truth, but offers lessons for others seeking to clean their watersheds.

Williamson Dilg pushed for Upper Mississippi wildlife refuge

The refuge, cradled in the Driftless Area and bordered by steep wooded bluffs, includes nearly 250,000 acres of floodplain forests, braided river channels, marshes and prairie that provides habitat to more than 300 bird species.

More intense flooding, drought and hotter temperatures are expected in the Quad-Cities in the coming decades as a result of climate change, according to a new report.

Retailers and commuters cope while the Black Hawk Bridge over the Mississippi River is temporary closed.

This season, the last of the ice that typically persists on the upper Mississippi River through the start of spring had melted and was floating downstream at the end of February. Many described the winter conditions as something they’d never experienced before. But as climate change continues to progress, it could become familiar.

Mayors from 10 states along the Mississippi River flew to Washington, D.C. earlier this month to lobby for funding to protect and restore one of the world’s most important working rivers.