The Mississippi River basin is getting wetter as climate change brings era of extreme rain, floods thegazette.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thegazette.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
A search and rescue team wades through Troublesome Creek in Eastern Kentucky, searching for flood victims in an area jumbled with debris on July 31, 2022. (Jeff Faughender / The
The shifting trends and escalating flood risk raises urgent questions about society’s readiness to cope with the change, as spiraling and once-unheard-of rainfall extremes become more frequent.
Much of the Mississippi River basin is getting wetter, according to a new analysis of federal data, while rainfall events are becoming more intense. At the same time, the western half of the U.S. is increasingly prone to drought.