The region is also an economic hub, responsible for a huge amount of tourism, fishing, cargo shipping, and crude oil production. Along with human life, the Mississippi River Delta is home to an ...

Iowa’s anti-French sentiments are reflected in Clayton County’s Elkader, named after Abd al-Qadir ibn Muhyi al-Din, an ...

A first-of-its-kind project seeking to restore river ecosystems along 39 miles of the Lower Mississippi River has federal ...

Since then, every generation of settlers to the region has attempted to control the river by building levees, or protective, raised embankments, alongside it. Prior to 1882, Mississippi Delta ...

It required 80-plus years of wrangling with agencies of the federal government, but an agreement appears to be in place to ...

The subcommittee oversees spending in several agencies, such as the Department of Energy, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, ...

Flood control along the Mississippi River is a central piece of a newly passed federal law — work that advocates believe is critical as the river basin sees more frequent and severe extreme ...

The Mississippi River Delta is under siege – a multi-pronged attack of sediment erosion, rising sea levels, and flooding is putting immense strain on the wetlands between the Mississippi River ...