Mayors from Minnesota to Louisiana traveled to Washington earlier this month with a bipartisan message that protecting the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A barge navigates the historically-low Mississippi River at Memphis in April 2023. (Photo by Dulce Torres Guzman/Tennessee Lookout ...

Mayors from cities and towns along the Mississippi River are taking action on natural disaster response. This week they launched a new initiative to improve immediate disaster relief. They’re also ...

Scientists at the Urbana-Champaign can now differentiate between human-derived and hydrological contributions of riverine ...

Water covers a portion of Owl Hoot Road and part of a house in Ridgely, Tenn. on April 9, 2025 following 96 hours of heavy rain that caused the Obion River to overflow. (Photo: Cassandra Stephenson) ...

Many acres of wetlands across the vast Mississippi River basin would lose federal protection under a new rule proposed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Agricultural and builders’ groups ...

This report summarizes presentations and discussions of Mississippi River and basin water quality management, monitoring, and evaluation programs that took place at a workshop that was held in St.

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 ...

Southeast Louisiana is abnormally dry. The top and bottom of the Mississippi River has had high streamflows this month, but about a quarter of gauges throughout the basin show below-normal flow.

Nearly every part of Missouri is experiencing some level of drought, while Iowa has very little drought. The top and the bottom of the Mississippi River have had high streamflows this month, but about ...