ROCK ISLAND, Illinois, May 15 -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-Rock Island District issued the following news release: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Rock Island District and its Upper Mississippi River Restoration Program partners are constructing a habitat rehabilitation project in Pool 14 of the Mississippi River near Princeton, Iowa, and are seeking comments on the project plan through June 15. The draft feasibility report, which includes the project's tentatively selected plan and a  more

ANKENY, Iowa, May 14 -- The Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, a journal of natural resource conservation research, practice, policy and perspectives from the Soil and Water Conservation Society, published research articles on the following topics in its May/June 2020 edition: * Characterizing transport of natural and anthropogenic constituents in a long-term agricultural watershed in the northeastern United States * Conservation tillage effects in the Atlantic Coastal Plain: An APEX exam  more

MADISON, Wisconsin, May 16 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service Wisconsin office issued the following news release: Conservation practices are working to reduce runoff, improve soil quality, and mitigate contaminants in small watersheds across the country, according to USDA's scientific findings published in the Journal of Soil and Water Conservation. USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and Agricultural Research Service (ARS) collaborat  more

BOISE, Idaho, May 14 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service Idaho office issued the following news release: Conservation practices are working to reduce runoff, improve soil quality, and mitigate contaminants in small watersheds across the country, according to USDA's scientific findings published in the Journal of Soil and Water Conservation. USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and Agricultural Research Service (ARS) collaborated with un  more

GAINESVILLE, Florida, May 14 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service Florida office issued the following news release: Conservation practices are working to reduce runoff, improve soil quality, and mitigate contaminants in small watersheds across the country, according to USDA's scientific findings published in the Journal of Soil and Water Conservation. USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and Agricultural Research Service (ARS) collaborat  more

WASHINGTON, May 14 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service issued the following news release: Conservation practices are working to reduce runoff, improve soil quality, and mitigate contaminants in small watersheds across the country, according to USDA's scientific findings published yesterday in the Journal of Soil and Water Conservation. USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and Agricultural Research Service (ARS) collaborated with univers  more

NEW YORK, May 16 -- Penguin Random House published the following book - "Spying on the South, An Odyssey Across the American Divide" by Tony Horwitz: The publisher provided this outline of the work: With Spying on the South, the best-selling author of Confederates in the Attic returns to the South and the Civil War era for an epic adventure on the trail of America's greatest landscape architect. In the 1850s, the young Frederick Law Olmsted was adrift, a restless farmer and dreamer in search o  more

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, May 16 -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-New Orleans District issued the following news release: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans District, has scheduled a virtual public meeting regarding the Port of New Orleans Access Channel Deepening Feasibility Study (PONO) at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, May 20, 2020. The report, supporting documents, and public meeting login information is available on the project site here: https://www.mvn.usace.army.mil/About/Projects/PO  more

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Missouri, May 13 -- Rep. Jason Smith, R-Missouri, issued the following news release: Congressman Jason Smith (R-MO) is fighting for Congress to include language in the upcoming Water Resource bill that would authorize the Army Corps of Engineers to aid in maintaining and upgrading southeast Missouri's water infrastructure. Smith's plan calls for bringing Missouri's outdated water infrastructure into the 21st century through cost sharing agreements with the Army Corps of Engineer  more

CHAMPAIGN, Illinois, May 15 -- The University of Illinois System Urbana-Champaign campus issued the following news release: Corn cultivation spread from Mesoamerica to what is now the American Southwest by about 4000 B.C., but how and when the crop made it to other parts of North America is still a subject of debate. In a new study, scientists report that corn was not grown in the ancient metropolis of Cahokia until sometime between A.D. 900 and 1000, a relatively late date that corresponds to   more

MIAMI, Florida, May 13 [TNSenvironmentresearch] -- The University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science issued the following news: Researchers at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science have uncovered a new connection between tropical weather events and U.S. rainfall during El Nino years. The results can help explain why California received significantly less rainfall than predicted during the 2015 El Nino event while massive flo  more