War artifacts are typically weapons and uniforms, but occasionally something so strange shows up, that even historians are at ...

University of Minnesota researchers say using nature instead of concrete is best for controlling Mississippi River flooding in Minnesota and the upper Midwest.

A geologist's vibrant maps reveal how the Mississippi River has wandered across its valley, making it look like a colorful, ...

Lava flows, near mile-thick glaciers and ice age floods layered and carved up this landscape.

In 2019, an unrelenting flood swamped more than half a million acres in the Mississippi Delta's Yazoo Backwater. It took more than six months to recede. Here & Now's Peter O'Dowd reports on a pumping ...

Whether you're a nature lover or simply seeking a scenic drive through the heart of the Midwest, the DARK Trail provides a ...

Over the last 8,000 years (a mere instant in geology) the delta of the Mississippi has changed six times, and formed much of what is now Louisiana with its alluvial deposits brought down from Northern ...

Gov. Tony Evers signed a proclamation declaring June 2 National Mississippi River Day in Wisconsin, saying the river helps connect the state to the global economy.

GEOLOGY & NATURAL RESOURCES. Cleveland sits at the junction of 2 major land types. From the Portage Escarpment southeast and east of the city, the glaciated Allegheny Plateau rises in gradually higher ...

Mississippi is no stranger to fossils of this type, either. Thanks to its ancient geologic structure, known as the Mississippi Embayment, the area was once submerged under the Western Interior Seaway.

The Mississippi River occupies an ancient geologic structure called the Mississippi Embayment, which was inundated by the Western Interior Sea Way during the Cretaceous period. Mosasaur fossils have ...

The Mississippi River is designed as a self-scouring channel, with the water flowing at a rate high enough to kick sediment out into the Gulf of Mexico and away from Louisiana’s starving wetlands.