A cloudy, rust-colored liquid plume, roughly the size of a football field, flowed into the Mississippi River last week out of ...

Saltwater will soon rush into the Mississippi River, which hit its lowest flow rate since 1988. That means the drinking water for thousands of Louisiana residents will be polluted. Gov. John Bel ...

As a wedge of salt water creeps up the Mississippi River, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is considering an unusual tactic: Using the massive Old River Control Structure to reduce the amount of water ...

Facts about the Mississippi River are highlighted. Journalist Boyce Upholt talked about his experience traveling on the river.

A mining company wants to dig for materials beneath the Mississippi River in Cottage Grove,. The proposal is getting plenty of pushback from neighbors and government agencies.

NEW ORLEANS, La. — When Hurricane Ida hit Louisiana as a Category 4 storm on Sunday, it temporarily reversed the flow of the Mississippi River. Ricky Boyette, a spokesman for the U.S. Army Corps of ...

Intensification of brown color in surface waters has been observed over several decades in many areas. We examined a 64-yr daily record (1947–2010) of visual water color, a measure of chromophoric ...

Big Blue Sky member Sophia Landis plays a Native American-style flute during a music cruise Sept. 13, 2024, on the Mississippi River between Marquette, Iowa and Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin. Many of ...

MARQUETTE, Iowa - It was just before sunset on the Mississippi River, the day's last bits of golden light dancing on the water, when four members of the band Big Blue Sky picked up their instruments ...