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

In 1875, Wong joined 13 other men aboard a steamboat headed to the Mississippi Delta to pick cotton ... Victor pulled out a map and pointed north. “I just knew that there was going to be ...

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Still, the diversion’s Mid-Barataria location was researched over decades to find the most cost-effective place to build the largest area of land, according to Restore the Mississippi River Delta, a ...

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Gov. Tony Evers signed a proclamation declaring June 2 National Mississippi River Day in Wisconsin, saying the river helps ...

An April report by a nonprofit environmental advocacy group named the Mississippi River as the most endangered in the United ...

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In downtown Clarksdale, a trendy coffee shop that looked like it would be more at home in Bentonville than the Mississippi River Delta gave us the start we needed. Called Yazoo Pass, the coffee ...