Science news articles about 'mississippi river basin'

... the National Research Council has released for publication its study for improving water quality in the Mississippi River Basin and Northern Gulf of Mexico. The purpose of the study was to create an ...

... sites examined in the Columbia, Colorado, and Mississippi River basins. The percentage of intersex smallmouth bass ... three sites in the lower Rio Grande Basin including Rio Grande at Brownsville, Texas ...

... TOPEX/Poseidon data from the 1997 Red River flood in the upper Midwest of the United States, ... South Dakota; and the Minnesota River Basin and the Mississippi River Basin, both in Minnesota and Iowa. ...

... 100 years on watersheds varying in size from the Illinois Cache River basin (400 square miles) to the Mississippi River Basin (more than a million square miles). The researchers compared this ...

... mid-1990s. During that period, tons of excess nitrogen and phosphorus entered the Mississippi River Basin and drained into the Gulf of Mexico, where the large influx of nutrients has triggered huge ...

... that the zone forms when fertilizers wash off farm fields throughout the Mississippi River basin and into the Gulf of Mexico. The fertilizers cause the growth of algae, which eventually depletes ...

... . A new USDA program highlights the need for increased conservation practices. Called the Mississippi River Basin Healthy Watersheds Initiative, it provides a $320 million investment over four years ...