Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world’s hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook and Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter. The work of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers often goes largely unseen and ...
When the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers created a 200-acre, scale model of the Mississippi River Basin
In 1936, after nearly two decades of devastating floods in the Mississippi River Basin, Congress passed the Flood Control Act, which funneled over $300 million into dams and other projects that ...
They are giant conveyor belts of water in the sky, moisture-rich storms that roll in from the Pacific Ocean a few times a year to fill California’s reservoirs, blanket the Sierra Nevada with snow and ...
A team of researchers has created a scale to characterize the strength and impacts of the weather phenomenon known as 'atmospheric rivers.' A team of researchers led by Scripps Institution of ...
"Are you sure you want to go in there?" I said as I looked over the poison ivy, so green and inviting. I thought back to the last time my friend Barb had gotten involved with poison ivy, and her skin ...
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