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While the barge industry has been conducting its own energy transition, it has always been and remains the greenest transportation mode.

Barges can move cargo with less fuel than a truck or train. But environmental experts are skeptical of emissions calculations.

Perhaps this is the summer that finally renders climate change real. Flooding and soaring temperatures across the nation have made global warming indisputable. The problem, as always, is how to reach political consensus on an action plan. Republicans want to plant a “trillion” trees; Democrats want to limit carbon emissions. If the nation’s response to […]

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The St. Louis region has mangled its waterways for hundreds of years. Warming temperatures may bring the consequences to bear.

Climate change will likely reveal the consequences of decades of mismanaging local watersheds

Flooding caused by late and heavy snow and resulting snow melt inundated portions of northern Minnesota this year and has affected other communities along the Mississippi River, as engineers study trends and help cities and towns develop long term solutions  

Flooding caused by late and heavy snow and the resulting snow melt inundated portions of northern Minnesota this year and has affected other communities along the Mississippi River. 

About 60% of the Midwest and northern Great Plain states are in a drought. Nearly the entire stretch of the Mississippi River — from Minnesota to the river’s mouth in Louisiana — has experienced below average rainfall over the past two months.

(NEW YORK) — Bodies of water all over North America are drying up as a result of drought and a decrease in precipitation, experts told ABC News. Earlier this year, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicted that the 22-year megadrought affecting the West would […]