For more than 80 years, residents of Mississippi’s Yazoo Backwater have been banking on a pumping project to protect their ...

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

From the Barrier Islands to the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, here's where to see some of the best views in.

To John Ruskey, the Mississippi River is “a creative force” that sculpts the landscape and rejuvenates the people who ...

In the 1800s, this was where the most skilled river pilots lived – the daredevils who guided steamboats through the treacherous Upper Rapids, memorizing every hidden rock and swirling eddy that could ...

A congressional tour of the National Weather Service Quad Cities forecasting office revealed a skeleton crew trying to keep ...

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

Jolliet in 1673 and the Cavelier de La Salle Expedition of the Mississippi River Valley ... in archived maps ranging from 1858 to the present. With modern Geographic Information System (GIS ...

The Mississippi River crested in New Orleans ... Corps of Engineers monitors these closely as it manages the river’s plumbing system of levees, floodways and reservoirs built to prevent major ...

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 ...

The Mississippi River is considered the most endangered in the U.S. due to uncertainty over the Federal Emergency Management Agency's future, according to an environmental group based in ...