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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A recent study is disrupting the conventional wisdom that there is no connection between climate change and deadly tornadoes, such as the ones that tore through Mississippi over the weekend.

The Mississippi River suffered historically low water levels in October 2022 due largely to volatile weather cycles caused by climate change. (Video: John Farrell/The Washington Post) Nearby ...