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The Coast Guard reopened the Mississippi River to limited ship traffic Friday, but port officials say it will take days to clear up to 200 ships idled by a massive oil spill near New Orleans.
The Coast Guard has stopped 59 ships from traversing a closed stretch of the Mississippi River from New Orleans to the Gulf of Mexico Thursday while hundreds of workers tackled the difficult task of cleaning up about 400,000 gallons of heavy oil that spilled when a barge and tanker collided.
Crews are cleaning more than 400,000 gallons of oil from a closed stretch of the Mississippi River from New Orleans to the Gulf of Mexico.
Hundreds of feet beneath Earth’s surface, a few seasoned cave explorers venture where no human has set foot. Their headlamps illuminate mud-covered walls, gypsum crystals and mineral deposits.
The Coast Guard says 19 miles of the Mississippi River at New Orleans is closed after a tugboat pushing a barge and a 600-foot tanker crashed, causing diesel to leak into the water.
Two members of a church group died after they went too deep into a river and were washed away by swift currents and swept over waterfalls, authorities said.
Jeremy Smith lives in Wisconsin and works in Minnesota, just a 10-minute car trip across the Mississippi River to his job.
Police in southwest Idaho say a woman who dropped her phone in the Boise River and then yelled for help to get it back resulted in reports of a woman who had fallen into the river.
A grieving mother placed a simple brown teddy bear in her teenage son’s open casket Saturday as mourners bade farewell to one of the victims of a river tragedy that killed six high school students and a teacher earlier this week in New Zealand.
Rescuers were searching for up to eight teenage students at an outdoor program who were missing after being swept away by a raging river in New Zealand, officials said Tuesday.
Soon Glasgow’ Clyde river will be a house to new kinda lilies belonging to the solar family. We have seen solar panels on roof of houses, vehicles, in gardens and backyards and many more places. But it’s the first time that I came across this...
This summers, let deviate from the vast expanse of the seas and explore the beauty of rivers. Instead of booking up on the luxurious cruises sailing on the waves, check out the SS Misr, a luxury Nile steamer that sashays down the river elegantly. You...
Rivers beat rail and road transport when it comes to saving the environment, The Heart of Illinois Regional Port District Executive Director points out. He adds,
A typical tow load of 15 barges on the river would represent the equivalent of 2...
Over the last 25 years, the sand slowly takes control of the mouth of the Murray River, especially where the Murray meets the surf of the Southern Ocean and close the river mouth. It is Australia’s greatest waterway that’s declining. The undignified...
A lake bursts its way through the Ghat (bank), destroying it. I know, it’s nothing unusual a story about the river and bank interactions. But, it did hit the headlines and the environmentalists’ concerns. It all happened high in the Himalayas. Such a...
Eradicate poverty? Or keep river pollution free? It’s a tug-of-war between the environmentalist groups and China Academy of Sciences (CAS). Domestic and international environmentalist groups and also the China Youth Daily, the official newspaper of the...
This is not a novel idea, but is contemporary to certain extent. The idea of baking fish fillets the Italian way with herbs, white wine, olive oil, salad plants, pepper and other such zesty stuff, tastes better than the traditional fried fish. It secures...
In this Sept. 6, 2007 file photo, Proteus, a prototype wave adaptive modular vessel, cuts through the waters of the Hudson River in New York. “The river is still safe to swim in most times in most places, but when it’s not safe, it’s very unsafe,”...
