Scientists Can't Explain What's Happening With The Mississippi River — And It's Concerning скачать в хорошем качестве

Scientists Can't Explain What's Happening With The Mississippi River — And It's Concerning

Two hundred billion gallons of water are vanishing from the Mississippi River every single day—and scientists have no idea where it's going. Not reduced. Not delayed. Vanishing. The water enters the river system at one point, and by the time it should arrive downstream, it's simply gone. In 2024, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers assembled 37 of the nation's top hydrologists, geologists, and engineers to examine eighteen months of data. Their conclusion? The losses exceed every known natural and human cause by a ratio of nearly seven to one. The math doesn't work. The physics shouldn't allow it. And yet the river keeps shrinking. Sandbars have emerged that haven't been seen since 1872. Barges carrying 60 percent of America's grain exports are stranded on exposed riverbeds. A waterway that moves 700 billion dollars in goods annually is collapsing—and the people whose job it is to understand rivers are admitting, on record, that what's happening here could rewrite everything we thought we knew about hydrology. This isn't a drought. Rainfall has been exactly average. Something else is pulling the water out of the Mississippi, and the deeper scientists dig, the more alarming the answer becomes.