$1.9 Million Available in Cooperative Agreement for Coastal Research Program By MYRA TUGADE - Targeted News ServiceOctober 27, 2015WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 -- The U.S. Department of Commerce has announced that it expects to award up to 13 cooperative agreements for the Northern Gulf of Mexico Ecosystems and Hypoxia Assessment Program and Coastal Hypoxia Research Program. The estimated [...]

Were totally mismanaging the Mississippi River basin and its costing us By Ryan Schuessler (Washington Post)October 16, 2015 LaGrange, Mo., suffered flooding on April 20, 2013, when the Mississippi River was at or near crest at several places between the Quad Cities and near St. Louis. (AP Photo/Missouri Department of Public Safety) In a first-of-its-kind [...]

'Report Card' Gives Mississippi River Basin a D+ By Jim Salter, Associated PressOctober 14, 2015A report card is out on the Mississippi River basin, and the grade is not good: a D+, with an aging transportation infrastructure topping the list of concerns. The report by America's Watershed Initiative, released Wednesday in St. Louis, assesses categories [...]

Mississippi River Basin Earns D+ From Americas Watershed Initiative By CBS LocalOctober 14, 2015 ST. LOUIS (AP) A report card is out on the Mississippi River basin, and the grade is not good: a D+, with the rivers aging transportation infrastructure topping the list of concerns. Americas Watershed Initiative on Wednesday released details of its [...]

Dolphins Aid with Gulf Conservation By Nick Janzen, wrkf.orgOctober 9, 2015 Two dolphins swim off the coast of Grand Isle in the Gulf of Mexico. JUDY PALERMO | THE INDIANAPOLIS ZOO The Dead Zone. It sounds ominous, mysterious. "So its a phenomenon that, to my understanding, didnt even really exist before the 1970s, but is [...]