You could call it “Dead Zone East,” a 1,634-square-mile area of Gulf of Mexico bottom waters with dangerously low levels of oxygen on the east side of the Mississippi River. It's a bit larger than the ...

A new study says river deltas around the world aren’t just disappearing because of rising seas, but because the land itself ...

Missouri is almost completely in drought and Iowa is almost drought-free. The top and bottom of the Mississippi River has had high streamflows this month, but about a quarter of gauges throughout the ...

Managing the river's breaks, or crevasses, is of high importance, affecting issues ranging from saltwater intrusion to global ...

The Mississippi River is the largest in the nation and is of great importance for commerce, recreation and wildlife. It creates hundreds of thousands of jobs and billions in revenue, but how much do ...

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 Washington ...

American Rivers, a nonprofit environmental advocacy organization, named the Mississippi River the "most endangered river" of 2025. The group publishes a list yearly of at-risk rivers that the public ...