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Drought Still Threatens Mississippi River

2013-01-10 21:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Discovery News: A new year has started, but last year's drought is still afflicting the United States. The latest map from the U.S. Drought Monitor shows nearly 73 percent of the contiguous U.S. is still in drought. Rain has slaked the thirst of parts of the Northeast and Southeast, but dry conditions expanded in other regions. The southern Mississippi Valley recently received rainy relief as a belated Christmas present, but the northern stretches of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers and their headwaters remained...

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Climate Change and the Shrinking Mississippi

2013-01-10 00:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Huffington Post: Conversations about climate change routinely observe that extreme weather, including droughts, will be exacerbated as the Earth warms. Droughts lead to a lot of bad things, including food shortages, water shortages, and fires. In recent days, however, there has been a news story developing that illustrates an additional consequence of drought, and one that deserves a lot more attention. At the moment, the United States is in the midst of one of the worst droughts in American history. One consequence...

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Helen of Troy plans distribution center in Mississippi

2013-01-09 04:14:36| Appliances - Topix.net

El Paso-based Helen of Troy announced today that it plans to spend $37 million to build a 1.3 million-square-foot warehouse and distribution center in Mississippi, near where it already operates another large distribution center.

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Mississippi River has enough water to stay open: Senator Durbin

2013-01-07 20:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: The drought-drained Mississippi River will stay open for commerce as workers make progress clearing rock from a critical stretch of the nation's busiest waterway, U.S. Senator Dick Durbin said on Monday after touring the river on a boat. The White House has said "any option is on the table" to keep the river open to commerce if water levels drop too low, Durbin said in a phone interview. Durbin, the No. 2 Democrat in the Senate, and other officials took to the water near Thebes, Illinois, where...

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