America’s Biggest River Is Failing
By BRIGHT SIDE
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America’s most important river is starting to fail and the consequences could spread far beyond the United States. The Mississippi River is dropping to historic lows, exposing massive sandbars, trapping cargo barges, and threatening one of the world’s busiest trade routes. Every year, hundreds of millions of tons of food, fuel, and raw materials move through this river system… but now, entire shipments are slowing down or getting stuck. What’s causing this crisis? Credits: Schutensauger waehrend des Betriebes: by Christian Jonas CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Schutensauger_waehrend_des_Betriebes.ogv Leichtern des Kohlefrachters Maranta auf der Deutzer Platte auf dem Rhein bei Köln: by Raimond Spekking CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Leichtern_des_Kohlefrachters_Maranta_auf_der_Deutzer_Platte_auf_dem_Rhein_bei_Köln.webm This
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