River barges are an efficient way to move crops — 15 barges can hold about as much grain as 1,000 semi-trucks. But low river ...

Climatologists say it could be part of a larger trend. For the third year in a row, extreme drought conditions in the Midwest ...

A map shared on X, TikTok, Facebook and Threads, among other platforms, in August 2024 claimed to show the Mississippi River ...

A map of the Mississippi River basin and the river’s major tributaries. (Annie Ropeik, Ag & Water Desk/Data via U.S.

Drought across the central US is shrinking the Mississippi River, sending barge rates soaring and threatening to roil ...

only for drought conditions to reemerge in recent weeks along the Ohio River basin, which typically supplies more water to the Mississippi than any other major tributary. Water levels have been ...

Brad Kooima of Kooima Kooima Varilek says the cash cattle market put in a low last week and futures were sharply higher so ...

Here are 10 facts about the Mississippi you may not know. 1. The Mississippi River Is the Third-Largest River Basin in the World Encompassing more than 1.2 million square miles, the Mississippi ...

Drought across the central U.S. is shrinking the Mississippi River, sending barge rates soaring and threatening to roil ...

Boaters, bike riders and drivers need to pay attention as Rock Island starts sprucing up Lake Potter in Rock Island. The U.S.

The Mississippi River drains all or part of two Canadian provinces and 32 states in America, with a drainage basin of more than 1.15 million square miles that discharges more than 4 million ...

Coastal restoration authorities aim to use a series of basins and gates to bring the Mississippi River back into the Barataria Basin, and to use river sediment to rebuild the wetlands there. The goal ...