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Memphis (AFP) - In the middle of the shrunken Mississippi, a barge drags a giant metal-edged suction head along the riverbed to remove sediment from shipping lanes. The crew of the dustpan dredge Hurley has been working around-the-clock for months to deepen the channels so boats and barges can pass through. "We've worked almost nonstop since last fall, everywhere from New Orleans up to St. Louis" in Missouri, said the vessel's captain Adrian Pirani, standing on the bridge. For the second straight year, water levels in North America's biggest river have dropped to record lows amid a lengthy d...
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Turrell (United States) (AFP) - Jonathan Driver, an Arkansas farmer with blackened hands and a thick southern drawl, doesn't have a minute to spare. He's been working 16 or 17 hours a day to finish harvesting his crops and -- an added stress this year -- to find someplace to store tons of excess soybeans. "Getting it out of that field is very crucial," Driver said as he stepped out of his white pick-up truck. But for a second straight year, dangerously low water levels in the Mississippi River have drastically curtailed river transport, and that means added costs and complications for the far...
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Buras (United States) (AFP) - In southern Louisiana, where most things are surrounded by water, residents are being forced to buy bottled water to drink, bathe and even give to their pets. Salt water is creeping up the drought-hit Mississippi River from the Gulf of Mexico, and residents of the delta basin are feeling forgotten. "Our water started having a very funny taste" in May, explains 68-year-old Cathy Vodopija. "When you wash your clothes, it’s like bleached whatever you were washing -- without putting bleach in it." For the second straight year, water levels in the mighty river that cu...
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Lorient (France) (AFP) - After a near two-year "Microbiome" mission around the world, scientists said on Saturday they had gathered thousands of samples of marine micro-organisms in a bid to better understand ocean plankton and pollution. The survey was carried out from the 33-year-old Tara research schooner, which returned to her home port of Lorient on France's western coast at the weekend. From Chile to Africa, via the Amazon and the Antarctic, nearly 25,000 samples were collected over the 70,000-kilometre (43,000-mile) route. "All this data will be analysed," Tara Ocean Foundation director...
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