The Mississippi River is suffering its lowest water levels for a decade causing chaos as barges ground (eight last week), there are days of queuing for barges to proceed, a cruise ship cancels its cruises, and a shipwreck is re-revealed. “We’re all just sitting here with about a hundred other boats,” bored tugboat tankerman told […]
New images from NASA show the dramatic decline in the water level of Lake Mead – the largest reservoir in the United States. The light-coloured fringes along the shorelines in images taken in 2021 and 2022 are mineralised areas of the lakeshore that were formerly underwater when the reservoir was filled closer to capacity. The […]
A Higgins landing craft, 1,500 of which were deployed at Normandy on D-Day in 1944, is just the latest in a series of objects unearthed by declining water levels in Lake Mead. Last week, MIN reported that the USA reservoir has already served up skeletons, and boats, as the water level drops rapidly. The Higgins […]