AI river forecasts may be accurate, but based on flawed logic

Artificial intelligence is changing how we predict river flow—but a new study led by researchers at the University of British ...
Smithsonian Magazine

The Cuyahoga River Caught Fire at Least a Dozen Times, but No One Cared Until 1969

Original Caption: Firemen stand on a bridge over the Cuyahoga River to spray water on the tug Arizona, as a fire, started in an oil slick on the river, sweeps the docks at the Great Lakes Towing ...
PBS

The Mississippi River Commission and the Army Corps of Engineers

Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover and Vice Chairman of the Red Cross James Fieser. Ten thousand River Commissions, with the mines of the world at their back, can not tame that lawless stream, ...
Smithsonian Magazine

The 70 Million-Year-Old History of the Mississippi River

In 1758, the French ethnographer Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz published The History of Louisiana, in which he wrote that the Mississippi River’s name meant “the ancient father of rivers.” Though his ...
NPR

Saltwater is moving up the Mississippi River. Here's what's being done to stop it

NEW ORLEANS — Ducks have taken roost on a sandy strip along the Mississippi River — a bank that's typically underwater. "We have this nice little beach here that Black-bellied whistling ducks are ...