New research shows that typically, less than 10% of land-building alluvium reaches the Bird’s Foot Delta region, the ...

These are the emerging challenges Louisiana and the nation are struggling to content with on the lower Mississippi River.

The Mississippi River is considered the most endangered in the U.S. due to uncertainty over the Federal Emergency Management Agency's future, according to an environmental group based in ...

A map shared on X, TikTok, Facebook and Threads, among other platforms, in August 2024 claimed to show the Mississippi River and its tributaries. One popular example was shared to X (archived ...

but how well acquainted are you with the river? The Mississippi, which flows over 2,000 miles, has a long history in the United States, from being the western border to then becoming the middle ...