mississippi
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Trump’s Unfinished Border Wall Could Worsen Texas Flooding
Former U.S. President Donald Trump’s border wall loomed large in American consciousness throughout his campaign and presidency — and wreaked a path of ecological destruction as he raced to fulfil his promise to build it. And while Joe Biden has halted construction on the wall, what has been built (or more accurately, what hasn’t) is…
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Swimming Banned At U.S. Beaches After Huge Toxic Algae Bloom
An unusually large bloom of toxic blue-green algae has prompted the closure of all beaches along the Mississippi coastline in the United States. Officials are attributing the bloom to excessive rainfall and overuse of fertilisers.
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The Mississippi River Is A Land-Making Machine: Dredgefest 2014
For the last four years, the Dredge Research Collaborative has been looking at dredging and erosion control as a form of often unacknowledged landscape architecture. Part of their work is a series of festivals they’re calling DredgeFest that celebrate and examine the role that dredging plays in landscaping. Their next event is in Louisiana. Gizmodo…