For more than 80 years, residents of Mississippi’s Yazoo Backwater have been banking on a pumping project to protect their ...

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

A bridge that spans the Mississippi River connecting Lansing, Iowa, to Wisconsin has reopened for now after a closure sent ...

To John Ruskey, the Mississippi River is “a creative force” that sculpts the landscape and rejuvenates the people who ...

For Allison, that means not only determining how the Mississippi River sediment moves now but also where dredged sand could ...

Clarksdale sits southeast and across the river from Helena-West Helena, and is mostly famous for its connections to ... operate on the lower Mississippi River basin, and it is estimated only ...

According to the National Wildlife Federation, nearly 20 million people rely on the Mississippi River Basin for daily drinking water. The river also helps support a billion-dollar industry that ...