Isaac Causes the Mississippi River to Flow Backwards August 30, 2012 | USGS "Strong winds and storm surge from Hurricane Isaac's landfall forced the Mississippi River to flow... Mississippi River in Drought August 21, 2012 | NASA Earth Observatory Water levels on the Mississippi River are at very low levels. This satellite image... Subsidence and Sea-Level Rise – Mississippi Delta April 6, 2012 | National Science Foundation "The Earth's crust beneath the Mississippi Delta sinks at a much slower rate than what... Floating Marshes of Louisiana January 27, 2012 | USGS In the Mississippi River Delta Plain, there are large expanses of floating marsh. This unique... Loss of Mississippi Delta Communities to Subsidence and Sea Level Rise May 24, 2013 | National Geographic National Geographic has an interesting article about how many small communities on the seaward edge... Upper Mississippi Near Record Lows January 31, 2013 | Energy Information Administration "As a result of last year's drought, stretches of the Upper Mississippi River have approached... Drilling Wells on Mars? February 29, 2012 | NASA "InSight, a proposed mission to quite literally dig deep into the planetary history of rocky... Bakken Crude to Louisiana by Barge? July 29, 2012 | FoxBusiness Kirby Corporation has been shipping crude oil produced from the Bakken Formation of North Dakota... |