More than 2,300 miles from its headwaters in northern Minnesota, the Mississippi River discharges water from 31 states and two Canadian provinces into the Gulf of Mexico. At the rate of up to ...

Three years later the EPA denied the petition, saying that though it agrees “nutrient loadings to the Mississippi River and its tributaries are both harming upstream water quality and contributing ...

A Minnesota Boat Club eight-man scull plies the waters of the Mississippi River on a training ... where it empties into the Gulf of Mexico. Along the way, it passes through the cities of ...

Corps engineers complete the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet, a 76-mile canal that offers a direct route for ships between New Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico, saving valuable time over traveling up ...

The Southwest Pass, where the river approaches the Gulf of Mexico and it splits into multiple lanes, is one such area. The lower Mississippi is the top port region of the U.S. in terms of freight ...

Did you know there's a massive "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico? No, we're not talking ... calculated using discharge from the Mississippi River and nutrient runoff data from the U.S. Geological ...

down to the Mississippi River, which could face similar changes from Minnesota, where that river starts, to Louisiana, where it flows into what the AP would list as “the Gulf of Mexico ...

According to the National Park Service, the Mississippi River flows 2,350 miles from its source at Lake Itasca to the Gulf of Mexico. However, a 2018 report from the U.S. Geological Survey’s ...

The Gulf of America is surrounded by five states: Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas. On the west of the gulf is Mexico and to the south is Cuba. President Trump ordered change to Gulf ...