Snowmelt, the single biggest predictor of the river's spring flood risk, won't play a big role this year as there wasn't much snow to begin with across the river basin.
A Wisconsin crop farmer says transportation issues have been one of his biggest concerns this year. “Living in west-central ...
Mayors of cities and towns along the Mississippi River are lobbying Congress for help to decrease flood risks.
A new congressional bill aims to improve fisheries and environmental quality in the Mississippi River basin with a federally ...
About a half dozen researchers were let go last month from the Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center in La Crosse, a U.S. Geological Survey site. The center produces key research about ...
Traci DuBose moved 600 miles to Wisconsin last summer to start her ... studying threatened freshwater mussels in the Mississippi River and elsewhere. DuBose is one of about a half-dozen scientists ...
There is a lot to talk about in the weather department over the next 24-48 hours with the threat of both severe thunderstorms ...
Advocates argue that we need trees now more than ever and that an increase in the timber harvest doesn’t make sense.
The timing of rain changing to snow means wide-ranging forecast snow totals from 1 or 2 inches up to several inches, but all of Wisconsin will see strong winds.
In 2024, Mississippi River towns avoided typical spring flooding ... Heavy snow in Minnesota and Wisconsin that spring melted quickly in a short burst of unseasonably warm temperatures, sending ...
In a now viral post, recently-fired National Parks Service ranger Brian Gibbs from Iowa, detailed his firing and what it ...
“We’ve been flying drones repeatedly on swaths upstream and downstream, looking at the changes in the river since the dam ...