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Planting Day in Tabor to the River
2013-01-30 01:30:03| PortlandOnline
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Rock clearing on drought-hit Mississippi River nears completion
2013-01-29 21:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will begin removing riverbed rock obstructions from the Mississippi River near Grand Tower, Illinois, on Tuesday night in the final phase of a project aimed at keeping the drought-hit shipping artery open to barge traffic. The river will be closed to navigation daily from midnight until noon between Grand Tower and Thebes, Illinois, 31 miles downriver, where the Corps has been blasting and removing rock pinnacles since mid-December, the Corps said on Tuesday. ...
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Tanzania: Climate Change Takes a Toll At Pangani River Basin
2013-01-29 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Tanzania Daily News: FOR Joanita Kilimba of Langoni village of Pangani District, the day starts at 2.00 am. That is the time when she must wake up, walk about 100 metres to a small shallow well and fetch water that the family will use for the rest of the day. However, sometimes she oversleeps and wakes up at 3.00 am or 4.00 am. Then the cost of sleeping would be reflected by the family's failure to wash in the morning or miss their lunch because there would be no water. "We have a big shortage of water here especially...
Barge hits bridge, spills oil into Mississippi River
2013-01-28 09:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: A barge carrying 80,000 gallons of oil hit a railroad bridge in Vicksburg, Miss., on Sunday, spilling light crude into the Mississippi River and closing the waterway for eight miles in each direction, the Coast Guard said. A second barge was damaged. Investigators did not know how much had spilled, but an oily sheen was reported as far as three miles downriver of Vicksburg after the 1:12 a.m. (2:12 a.m. ET) incident, said Lt. Ryan Gomez of the Coast Guard's office in Memphis, Tenn. Authorities...
Crude oil spills into Mississippi River after oil barges crash
2013-01-27 23:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Two oil barges pushed by a tugboat slammed into a railroad bridge in Vicksburg, Mississippi, on Sunday, causing one to leak crude oil into the Mississippi River, the U.S. Coast Guard said. Officials used an "absorbent boom" to contain the undetermined amount of oil that leaked into the river after the collision, which occurred shortly after midnight and damaged both barges, Lieutenant Ryan Gomez said. The barge that is leaking was holding 80,000 gallons of light crude oil, he said. "A towing...
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