The construction of levees along the Mississippi River has led to significant coastal land erosion in Louisiana by ...

The historic Black Hawk Bridge stood for nearly 100 years before it started experiencing problems that led to on-and-off ...

Boating across the Mississippi River from Memphis, David Rotter anchors his boat on the coast of the Loosahatchie Sandbar. He has only been on the 1,170 acre island a handful of times to hunt, but ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Mississippi River is the largest in the nation and is of great importance for commerce, recreation and wildlife. It creates ...

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In the month of October, the Mississippi River has seen record low levels from Illinois to Louisiana. In Baton Rouge, the level is revealing a more than 100-year-old sunken ferry and the underbelly of ...

DE SOTO - At the junction of Wisconsin, Minnesota and Iowa, there's a place called Reno Bottoms, where the Mississippi River spreads out from its main channel into thousands of acres of tranquil ...

Photos and satellite imagery from the central United States show how the region’s worst drought in at least a decade has pushed the Mississippi River and its tributaries to drop to record lows this ...

Hurricane Ida was so powerful, it actually reversed the flow of the Mississippi River. A US Geological Survey gauge detected the reversal in the Mississippi River near New Orleans on Sunday after the ...