Most of the upper Mississippi River basin is currently in drought, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor. Steady rains over longer periods of time can recharge moisture in the soil, Wendt said ...

But many people living in the Mississippi River basin — America's heartland ... appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: The upper Mississippi River is vital to Wisconsin.

The center produces key research about ecological trends on the upper Mississippi River basin and elsewhere in the Midwest and the world. Two former scientists who were fired said the terminations ...

Barge traffic is moving again on the Upper Mississippi River. Patrick Moes with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers St. Paul ...

Collaborative groups encourage more cohesive policy between basin states, such as the Mississippi River Cities and Towns Initiative and the Upper Mississippi River Basin Association, and there ...

while sturgeon in Lake Michigan and the upper Mississippi River basin may be threatened. In lakes Huron, Erie and Ontario, as well as the St. Lawrence River basin, sturgeon are less imperiled. Most ...

Heavy snow melt forced the closure of several locks on the upper Mississippi River...but high water levels and flooding are starting to ease which is allowing locks to reopen and barge traffic to ...