When I first moved to Vicksburg way back in 2014 to take a job across the river in Louisiana, someone described it as a “nice ...

That's an art exhibit centered around the Native relationship with the Mississippi River. You can see it on display at the Marine Art Museum in Winona, and it runs through July.

But the river is no longer able to keep up with rapid land loss in its delta, according to a study published in Science Advances today (April 11) that concludes land loss will continue despite the ...

DUBUQUE, Iowa (KWWL) -- The National Mississippi River Museum in Dubuque temporarily closed the Delta on Thursday after the passing of eight stingrays, the Living Collections team announced in a ...

Freese shows the river in all seasons, from its icy winters in Minnesota to its midwestern farm fields and towns, to its lush but industrialized Delta and Gulf of Mexico. The photographs show the ...

Intense floods in the upper Mississippi River basin may hold a silver lining for communities in the Arkansas Delta and Louisiana.

The river has brings tons of sediment downstream, forming new land, but it can't keep pace with the fast-rising seas.

The operator of Delta Discovery Tours mixes science and history into a lesson for tour boat patrons who want to see where the Mississippi River ends as it drains into one of the world’s larger ...

The Mississippi River carries enough sand downstream to keep Louisiana's sinking marshes afloat for the next 600 years, according to a new study published in Nature.

Louisiana State University and Tulane University are receiving a $22 million award to lead a consortium seeking ways to save the ecologically fragile Lower Mississippi River Delta.

The destructive floods along the Mississippi river last year helped create new land in the delta. Generating more land there in the future could help protect New Orleans and the surrounding area ...