The Mississippi River is one of the world's major rivers. It flows through the center of the United States, and historically it has been the dividing line between the Eastern United States and the ...

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Transporting water from the Mississippi River basin, which drains roughly 40% of the continental United States, has always been a long shot that many say isn’t practical or remotely cost-effective.

Transporting water from the Mississippi River basin, which drains roughly 40% of the continental United States, has always been a long shot that many say isn’t practical or remotely cost-effective.

History of Mississippi River. In the United States, the Mississippi River is a symbol of the long and significant history of the nation. The Choctaw, Chickasaw, ...

The Mississippi River is the latest body of water in North America to be hit by ongoing drought. The second-longest river in the United States, the Mississippi flows 2,350 miles from Lake Itasca ...

The 1.2 million-square-mile Mississippi basin, which makes up 41 percent of the continental United States, and drains water from 32 states and two Canadian provinces, has been crippled by drought.

Photos and satellite imagery from the central United States show how the region’s worst drought in at least a decade has pushed the Mississippi River and its tributaries to drop to record lows ...

Many Native Americans are marking ceremonies like graduations with bald eagle feathers, a form of reverence for the bird they ...

Low water levels on the Mississippi River are likely to persist this winter as drier-than-normal weather is expected across the southern United States and Gulf Coast, U.S. government forecasters ...