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 ...

Many acres of wetlands across the vast Mississippi River basin would lose federal protection under a the new rule.

That responsibility is currently shared by 31 states and multiple federal agencies, according to Ezell, vice chair of the ...

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 ...

The infrastructure along the Mississippi River has long protected the New Orleans area from catastrophic flooding. But a list ...

A new congressional bill aims to improve fisheries and environmental quality in the Mississippi River basin with a federally funded commission. “This is a bill that’s way past its due,” said U.S. Rep.

The law authorizes a large-scale study of flooding on the Upper Mississippi River System, which includes the Mississippi River from its headwaters to where it meets the Ohio River at Cairo, Illinois, ...

GULFPORT, Miss. (WLOX) - 35 members of the Mississippi River Basin Panel visited the Institute for Marine Mammal Studies on Wednesday to learn more about South Mississippi’s marine environment. The ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. A new congressional bill aims to improve fisheries and environmental quality in the Mississippi River ...