Researchers, patients optimistic in fight against alpha-gal syndrome
A support group and a lab in the St. Louis area provide resources for people with the allergy to mammal products — and evidence that its effects can be reversed.
Lower Basin
Stories from the Mississippi River's lower basin states: Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana
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At the mouth of the Mississippi, Louisiana bears the burden of upstream runoff. Why doesn’t it push for solutions?
This summer’s “dead zone,” a low-oxygen area where the river empties into the sea, could span 5,827 square miles across the Gulf of Mexico. Louisiana has the power to call for change.
Low Mississippi River has barges running aground, farmers’ crops piling up
Harvest season is underway for crops such as soybeans and corn, but farmers’ yields are piling up. Near-historic low
‘Dead Zone’ smaller than expected, but bigger than desired
The so-called dead zone where the Mississippi River dumps into the Gulf of Mexico, an area of low oxygen