Mississippi River

Feeding the World Through Smarter Agriculture

Mark Tercek | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Farming, The Nature Conservancy, Mississippi River, Green News, Cargill, Agribusiness, Sustainable Agriculture, Conservation, Fortune Brainstorm Green, Mark Tercek, Food Security, Impact News

How can we meet the world's increasing demands for food, water and energy without degrading the natural systems we depend on for survival?

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Focus on Coastal Restoration Not Retreat, Louisiana's Senator Landrieu Says

Susan Buchanan | Posted 05.18.2012

Louisiana needs to get smart quickly about coastal restoration, U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu said in her hometown of New Orleans last week.

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2 Barges Collide On Mississippi River, Spilling Oil

AP | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Video, Oil Spills, Mississippi River, Mississippi River Barge Collision, Mississippi Barge Oil Spill, Mississippi River Barge Accident, Mississippi River Barge Crash, Ap, Green News

LAPLACE, La. (AP) — An oil tanker barge collided with another barge Friday on the Mississippi, spilling oil and leading officials to close a five-mi...

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Views Collide At Meeting On Louisiana's Coastal Plan

Susan Buchanan | Posted 04.02.2012

A New Orleans open house held by Louisiana's coastal restoration authority last week on a draft of the state's 2012 Master Plan for a Sustainable Coast drew mixed, earnest and sometimes vehement comments.

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Should The U.S. Spend Billions To Protect Lakes, Rivers From Invasive Species?

AP | JOHN FLESHER | Posted 03.31.2012

Read More: Dave Camp, Asian Carp Great Lakes, Asian Carp, Mississippi River, Tim Eder, Great Lakes Commission, David Ullrich, Mark Biel, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Invasive Species, Joel Brammeier, Asian Carp Lake Michigan, Green News

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — Groups representing states and cities in the Great Lakes region on Tuesday proposed spending up to $9.5 billion on a mass...

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Six-Plus Years After Hurricane Katrina, Now Is a Great Time to Visit New Orleans

Martha Flumenbaum | Posted 03.31.2012

Read More: Bourbon Street, New Orleans Tourism, New Orleans, New Orleans Restaurants, Mississippi River, New Orleans Recovery, Beignet, New Orleans Travel, Audubon Zoo, Audubon Aquarium, Destinations, Travel News

Take a free ferry ride on the Mississippi River. Stop and hear some live jazz musicians while snacking on some pralines or a King Cake. Hold a live alligator on a swamp tour.

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'Green News Report' - January 26, 2012

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 03.27.2012

Read More: Fracking, Economy, West Virginia, Epa, Renewable Energy, Regulation, Conservation, Green News Report, Pollution, Coal, Pipeline, Canada, Tar Sands, Video, 2012 Presidential Election, Oil Spill, Sotu, Fossil Fuels, Big Oil, Climate Science, Gop, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Global Warming Deniers, Air Pollution, State of the Union, Global Warming, Energy, Environmentalism, Subsidies, State Department, Barack Obama, BRAD BLOG, Keystone XL Pipeline, Green News, Food, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Hydraulic Fracturing, China, Republicans, Chevy Volt, Mitch Daniels, Navy, Green Energy, Military, California Air Resources Board, Wetlands, Nanotechnology, Dept of Defense, Energy Efficiency, Mississippi River, Mining, Conocophillips, Green News

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Drill-Bab...

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Makeover of New Orleans Naval Complex Slated for 2013

Susan Buchanan | Posted 02.06.2012

Read More: U.S. Navy, UNITY of Greater New Orleans, Historic Tax Credits, Housing, Homelessness, Cruise Ships, Police, Military Bases, Katrina, Disasters, Supermarkets, Asbestos, Industrial Canal, U.S. Dept. Of Housing and Urban Development, New Orleans' Ninth Ward, Bp Spill, Mississippi River, Green News

After a string of natural and man-made catastrophes, New Orleans has become a spot to share expertise on flooding, wind, spilled oil and any other grief that comes down the pike.

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Louisiana's Oyster and Shrimp Supplies Will Remain Tight

Susan Buchanan | Posted 12.19.2011

Read More: Seafood Testing, Red Tide, Bp Spill, Mississippi River, Oysters, Hurricane Katrina, Gulf Coast Oil Spill, Green News

Lately, Louisiana residents have worried that their lunchtime oyster and shrimp poboys are torpedoing the weekly budget. After a series of calamities in recent years, Louisiana shellfish is expensive and won't become cheaper anytime soon.

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British Writer Paddleboards Down Mississippi And Into Record Books

HuffingtonPost.com | David Moye | Posted 11.08.2011

Read More: Extreme Athlete, Video, Weird Minnesota, Mississippi River, Deliverance, Weird New Orleans, Guinness World Records, Weird Vancouver, Paddleboarding, David Cornthwaite, Weird Las Vegas, World Records, Weird Sports, Weird News News

Dave Cornthwaite knows what it's like to be up the creek. Luckily, he's had a paddle most of the time. Cornthwaite, a 31-year-old Londoner, just sp...

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Rollin' on the River

Carl Pope | Posted 08.17.2011

Read More: Mike Johanns, Missouri River, Mississippi River Floods 2011, Atchafalaya Basin, Mississippi River, Claire McCaskill, Rep. Sam Graves, Sam Brownback, Green News

Yes, Congressman Graves, the river is managing us -- because we took away the space and resilience that gave the Missouri its capacity to manage itself. We can't afford to do away with nature, however hard you have been trying.

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Gulf 'Dead Zone' This Year Predicted To Be Largest In History

AP | By CAIN BURDEAU | Posted 08.14.2011

Read More: Bp, Gulf Dead Zone, Mississippi River, Hypoxic Zone, Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, Mississippi-River-Valley, Deepwater Horizon, British Petroleum, Atchafalaya River, Gulf Oil Spill, Gulf of Mexico, Lake Erie, Exxon Valdez, Green News

NEW ORLEANS -- Scientists predict this year's "dead zone" of low-oxygen water in the northern Gulf of Mexico will be the largest in history – ab...

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In Historic Flooding On Mississippi River, A Missed Opportunity To Rebuild Louisiana

HuffingtonPost.com | Chris Kirkham | Posted 08.09.2011

Read More: Floods, New Orleans, Mississippi River Floods 2011, Louisiana, Mississippi River, Extreme Weather, Business News

PLAQUEMINES PARISH, La. -- For decades, a mixture of industrial development and erosion has carved away at southern Louisiana, eliminating nearly 2,00...

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Glued to the Weather Channel While the World Burns

Paul Loeb | Posted 08.06.2011

Read More: Alabama Tornadoes, Mississippi River, Massachusetts Tornadoes, Koch Brothers, Climate Change, Tim Pawlenty, Joplin Tornado, Tornadoes, Extreme Weather, Texas Fires, Global Warming, Green News

Media coverage rarely connects the unfolding cataclysms with the climate change that fuels them. We can't guarantee that any specific disaster is caused by our warming atmosphere, but considered together, they fit all the predicted models.

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Residents Return To Flood-Damaged Homes In Mississippi

AP | By HOLBROOK MOHR | Posted 07.30.2011

Read More: New Orleans, Floods, Mississippi River Floods 2011, Natural Disasters, Morganza Spillway, Oysters, Morgan City, Flooding, Army Corps of Engineers, Tunica Lake, Oyster Industry, Cutoff Mississippi, Mississippi, Mississippi River, Louisiana, Missouri, Tunica County, Gulf of Mexico, Green News

CUTOFF, Miss. -- Javier Campos returned to his neighborhood for the first time in nearly a month Monday to find the serene little enclave of fishing c...

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Tornadoes, Floods Don't Pose Threat To Larger Economy, Experts Say

Associated Press | Christopher S. Rugaber and Jeannine Aversa | Posted 07.27.2011

Read More: Alabama, The South, Mississippi River, Houston, Mississippi Flooding, Tennessee, Mississippi State University, Lipow Oil Associates, Joplin Tornado, Business News

WASHINGTON — The tornadoes and floods that have devastated parts of the South and Midwest have also hammered the local economies – flooding farmla...

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Powerful Storms Roar Through Several States

AP | JIM SUHR | Posted 07.25.2011

Read More: Rain, St. Louis, Indiana, Joplin, Ohio, Hail, Joplin Missouri, Texas, Mississippi River Valley, Mississippi River, Powerful-Storms, Storms, Missouri, Illinois, Joplin Tornado, Tornadoes, Extreme Weather, Tornado, National Weather Service, Green News

ST. LOUIS — Powerful storms roared through middle America again on Wednesday, with weak tornadoes touching down in isolated spots and severe thu...

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The Best Way to Destroy an Enemy

Ethan Casey | Posted 07.23.2011

Read More: Mississippi River, Gas Prices, Osama Bin Laden Death, Salmaan Taseer, Pakistan, Muslim Americans, American Anger, 9/11, Pakistan Floods, Obama, Osama, Pakistani Culture, American Presidential Election, High Gas Prices, USA Election, 2012 Presidential Election, Nate Thayer, Pakistan Government, Unites States Foreign Policy, Vietnam, Abraham Lincoln, Pakistani Anger, Americans, John Demjanjuk Charged, Terrorists, President Barack Obama, Terrorism, Khmer Rouge, Cambodian Genocide, American Government, American Culture, New York, Barack Obama, Osama Bin Laden, Washinton D.C., Mississippi River Floods, Pakistanis, Pol Pot, John Demjanjuk, Cambodia, Taliban, World News

I hope that Pakistanis who are understandably offended by U.S. violation of Pakistan's sovereignty will keep in mind that individual Americans don't represent, nor are we necessarily well represented by, the American government.

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Last Holdouts Flee As Water Nears Louisiana Town

AP | MICHAEL KUNZELMAN | Posted 07.21.2011

Read More: Butte Larose, Video, Mississippi River, Louisiana, Atchafalaya River, Extreme Weather, Mississippi Floods, Mississippi Flooding 2011, Louisiana Flooding, Green News

BUTTE LAROSE, La. -- The final wave of holdouts has mostly packed up and left this Louisiana town as water from the swollen Atchafalaya River has inch...

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In Flood's Crosshairs, A Community Waits

HuffingtonPost.com | Chris Kirkham | Posted 07.20.2011

Read More: Mississippi River Floods 2011, Natural Disasters, Louisiana, Mississippi River, Mississippi Flooding, Mississippi Floods, Louisiana Floods, Bayou Floods, Extreme Weather, Mississippi River Flooding, Mississippi River Floods, Green News

BUTTE LA ROSE, LA. –- The evening chorus of bullfrogs, crickets and screech owls along the waterfront has seemed louder these last few nights. Th...

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Two Towns, Divided By A River, With Drastically Different Fates

HuffingtonPost.com | Chris Kirkham | Posted 07.18.2011

Read More: Southern Flood, Natural Disasters, Mississippi, Mississippi River, Mississippi River Flood, Mississippi Floods, Louisiana Floods, Natchez Flood, Vidalia Flood, Extreme Weather, Mississippi River Flooding 2011, Floods South, Green News

VIDALIA, La. -- Traffic has been swift for weeks along the majestic steel bridge that connects this low-lying river town to its sister city across the...

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Coast Guard Reopens Part Of Swollen Mississippi River

AP | HOLBROOK MOHR and ALAN SAYRE | Posted 07.17.2011

Read More: Floods, New Orleans, Mississippi River Floods 2011, Morganza Spillway, Flooding, Natchez Mississippi, Coast Guard, Army Corps of Engineers, Natchez, Mississippi River, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Extreme Weather, Gulf of Mexico, Mississippi River Flooding, Green News

JACKSON, Miss. — The Coast Guard reopened the swollen Mississippi River north of New Orleans on Tuesday, allowing cargo vessels on the nation's ...

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Funds For Reviving the Coast Will Be Lean, Even With BP's Infusion

Susan Buchanan | Posted 07.16.2011

Read More: New Orleans, St. Bernard Parish, Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation, Tulane University, Lake Borgne, Plaquemines Parish, Mrgo, Natural Resource Damage Assessment, Gulf Coast Leadership Forum, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Lower Ninth Ward, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Dept. Of the Interior, Bonnet Carre Spillway, Bp Spill, Mississippi River, Fishermen, Green News

An injection of BP funds and continued spending by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers may not be enough to counter decades of erosion along the Gulf, sp...

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Watch: Is Climate Change To Blame For The Mississippi Floods?

Posted 07.16.2011

Read More: Rain, Floods, Flooding, Climate Change, Mississippi River, Louisiana, Mississippi, Mississippi Floods 2011, Green News

Debating the Cause of the Mississippi's Historic Floods ...

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Obama Delivers Commencement Address At Memphis High School

AP | JIM KUHNHENN | Posted 07.16.2011

Read More: Mississippi River, Race-to-the-Top-Commencement-Challenge, Booker-T-Washington-High-School, Obama Education, Race to the Top, Memphis Floods 2011, Barack Obama, Tennessee Floods, Booker T. Washington, Obama Commencement Address, Education News

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Offering a lift to a flood beleaguered city, President Barack Obama hailed the transformation of a once struggling but ven...

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