In 2019, an unrelenting flood swamped more than half a million acres in the Mississippi Delta's Yazoo Backwater. It took more than six months to recede. Here & Now's Peter O'Dowd reports on a pumping ...

Author Matt Chaney, Southeast Missouri State University alumnus, discusses the inspiration for his books, “River Shows, Blues ...

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.

Composite view of Titan built thanks to Cassini’s images taken on October 9 and October 25, 2006. Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona. Despite its Earth-like rivers and lakes of liquid methane, ...

“If there are deltas the size of the one at the mouth of the Mississippi River, we should be able to see it,” Birch said. Earth, as seen by Cassini’s radar. In order to understand what landforms on ...

Officials in Vicksburg and Warren County continue to prepare for flooding from the Mississippi River. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, as of Friday morning, the ...

Earth’s coastlines are fascinating places where liquids mix and materials are shaped into distinct landforms like river deltas. Similar active coastlines exist on Saturn’s moon Titan, where liquid ...

Aside from two probable deltas near Titan’s south pole, the rest of the moon’s rivers were entirely delta-free. The researchers found that only about 1.3% of Titan’s large rivers that terminate at ...

A droplet of water travels 2,350 miles from the Riverhead to the Mississippi River Delta, which takes 90 days. What are the USA's top 10 most endangered rivers? 1.

The Mississippi River's endangered status stems from uncertainty surrounding FEMA's future role in floodplain protection and infrastructure maintenance. FEMA plays a crucial role in disaster ...

A conservation group on Wednesday named the Mississippi the “most endangered river of 2025,” citing threats to abolish the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), which plays a key role in ...

FEMA's potential elimination threatens flood protection and infrastructure along the Mississippi River, said American Rivers, an environmental group based in Washington, D.C. The top 10 endangered ...