Mississippi Flood Impacts on Gulf Of Mexico
The floods that surged through the Mississippi River basin are subsiding, but their impact is far from over. Swollen rivers dumped thousands of tons of nutrients and sediment into the Gulf of Mexico, where they are forecast to cause a record “dead zone” this summer.
Newspaper Archives Help to Understand Coastal Flooding
A unique study using over 70 years of information from local newspapers has helped to examine the incidence and location of coastal floods in the Solent region of southern England.