The mouth of the Mississippi River, emptying into the Gulf of Mexico south of New Orleans, Louisiana, is pictured from the International Space Station as it orbited 262 miles above.

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 ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) — Louisiana is strongly associated with water as it’s along the Gulf of Mexico and is home to the mouth of the Mississippi River. There are many lakes and rivers in ...

Communities in Plaquemines Parish, at the mouth of the Mississippi River in southern Louisiana, are on alert yet again as salt water threatens to spoil their drinking water supply for a third ...

WDSU FIRST WARNING WEATHER YOU’RE GOING TO SEE THE MIGHTY MISSISSIPPI BEHIND ME RIGHT HERE. AND ACTUALLY, THAT RIVER MILE MARKER RIGHT THERE. IN THE LAST FEW YEARS, I’VE BEEN WALKING UP RIGHT TO IT ...