Author: Thomas Rowe

The Mississippi River has reached record low flow rates recently, negatively impacting commerce via barges that have experienced delays due to low water levels that have required dredging upstream from Memphis. Second only in North America to the Hudson Bay drainage system, the Mississippi River has experienced historic low water levels despite the normal flows of its two main tributaries, the Ohio and the Missouri. Scientists are blaming climate change for historic low water levels of a number of rivers around Planet Earth, rivers such as the Yangtze in China and the Rhine in Europe. Adding to the low water…