The Fifth National Climate Assessment ... where it creates a vast “Dead Zone.” This year’s was almost as big as Yellowstone National Park. In the lower Mississippi, where nitrogen runoff ...

The backwaters are a unique habitat along the upper Mississippi ... upper river area. Climate change is making the backwaters less habitable, and making the Goldilocks Zones inside of them ...

Water primarily from the Mississippi River carries ... and scientists say climate change is the likely culprit Dead zones can occur naturally, but increased human activity is contributing to ...

Once confined to “Tornado Alley” in Texas and Oklahoma, severe storms are now striking farther east in Tennessee, Kentucky, and Mississippi. McIntyre attributes this shift to climate change ...

Rural communities in western Mississippi are surveying and cleaning ... was the storm related to climate change? Years of research have shown how climate change intensifies rain storms, heat ...

One tornado is bad enough — but on a recent afternoon in rural southern Mississippi ... EF4 that had begun in northern Louisiana, hit the zone around 1:39 p.m. Central time.

The ways climate change affects the Mississippi River have become undeniably more pronounced in recent years. “There is this flipside that we are starting to learn a lot more about, and that is ...

Look for the Plant Hardiness Zone assigned to your purchase on the label. In the fall of last year, the USDA rezoned North Texas for the second time in just over a decade. As the climate is ...

Scientific experts say global climate change may have a devastating impact on butterfly populations across the country. Dunaway, who works for the Mississippi Department of Wildlife and Fisheries ...

The Fifth National Climate Assessment, released last November, highlighted that drought could adversely affect the Mississippi with “regional and national implications.” Just a one-foot fall ...

Scientists from Louisiana State University found a massive dead zone in the Mississippi Sound while conducting their annual survey in the Gulf of Mexico. The dead zone stretches from the Chandeleur ...