Engineers tried to tame the Mississippi River. They only made flooding worse.

Grist
By Adam RogersApr 7, 2018, 7:00 am220 pts
This story was originally published by Wired and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Scientists, environmentalists, and anyone who lives within a hundred miles of the winding Mississippi River will tell you — have told you, repeatedly, for 150 years — that efforts to tame the river…

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