The Army Corps of Engineers has released a map showing their latest estimate of the inudation which can be expected in Louisiana along the Mississippi River and Atchafalaya River basins if the ...

Maisah Khan, policy director for the Mississippi River Network, said she starts every presentation by showing a map of the basin — pointing out the headwaters and the Gulf, explaining the ...

New research shows that typically, less than 10% of land-building alluvium reaches the Bird’s Foot Delta region, the southernmost reach of the river, where it meets the Gulf. NEW ORLEANS, La. – ...

Editor’s note: This is the second in a five-story series that will examine the slow progress being made on reducing harmful agricultural runoff from the Mississippi River basin, which causes a ...

From Other Nonprofit Media showcases select work from other nonprofit news sites around the nation. The Mississippi River is the nation’s most endangered river, a national conservation group says, ...

Water levels along the Mississippi River are plummeting for the second year in a row after this summer’s blistering heat and low rainfall triggered extreme drought across parts of the Central US. The ...

Thomas Jefferson imagined the waterway as the heart of his “empire of liberty” as he dispatched surveyors to measure a land already occupied by Native Americans Louisiana Purchase State Park in Holly ...