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) on ...

At 2,350 miles long, the Mississippi is the second-longest river in North America, behind its biggest tributary, the Missouri River, which is 100 miles longer, according to the National Park Service.

Map of low oxygen levels during a July 20-21, 2011, cruise east of the Mississippi River, with hypoxia, levels between zero and 2 parts per million in bottom water, in red, outlined by the black line.

This is the third year in a row that saltwater from the Gulf of Mexico has crept up the Mississippi River. This phenomenon, known as saltwater intrusion, occurs when the rate of flow in the river dips ...

Low water on the Mississippi River in Vicksburg, Mississippi, on October 11. The unusually low water level is evidenced by the exposed pier cap pile of the bridge. Rogelio V. Solis/AP ...

A saltwater wedge has crept along the river bottom nearly 64 miles upriver from the mouth of the Mississippi. "It's almost like a triangle," Jones says. "As this flow in the Mississippi River ...

A salty Mississippi River mouth is a wakeup for New Orleans Sediment and mixed river water are seen as a tanker ship moves upriver in Plaquemines Parish, La. Saltwater from the Gulf of Mexico has ...

After I masticated and digest the facts, I wanted to rename the stretch of the Mississippi upstream of the Twin Cities as the Itasca River. On my new map, the name Mississippi replaces Minnesota ...

New Orleans was founded in 1718 atop the ridge that runs alongside the current channel of the Mississippi, 150 kilometers upstream of the river’s mouth. The city’s earliest residents found ...

Map of low oxygen levels during a July 20-21, 2011, cruise east of the Mississippi River, with hypoxia, levels between zero and 2 parts per million in bottom water, in red, outlined by the black line.