It will take days for major floodwaters to work their way south through the Mississippi. Flooding will persist through April.

The Mississippi River is considered the most endangered in the U.S. due to uncertainty over the Federal Emergency Management ...

opening a path for the river we now know as the Mississippi to flow to the Gulf of Mexico. Scientists call that gap the Mississippi Embayment, but the rest of us know it as the Mississippi Delta ...

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 Washington ...