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

The Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge is the longest contiguous river refuge in the continental U.S., spanning 261 river miles from Wabasha, Minnesota to Rock Island, Illinois.

For the second year in a row, the Mississippi River is at historically low levels. ... PARKER: Preparing is what geology professor Tor Tornqvist with Tulane University recommends.

Baton Rouge and New Orleans exist because of the Mississippi River, and huge swaths of the region's and nation's economy have always depended upon it. But the big river didn't always flow where it ...

The Mississippi River is the second longest river in the U.S., and over 30 U.S. states and two Canadian provinces drain into it.

The current Mississippi River Delta formed over the past 7,000 years through sediment deposition from the river near ... professor and the Billy and Ann Harrison Chair in Sedimentary Geology at LSU.

Next ponder the fact that the Mississippi River within Minneapolis includes the 200-foot-high St. Anthony waterfall (modified in the mid-20th century by a concrete retaining walls plus locks to ...

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.

The remains of a giant “sea monster” that once dominated the oceans was unearthed by geologists on a riverbank in the Mississippi River, scientists have said. Geologists discovered a ...

To gauge where and when mudslides occur, the LSU team will map the seabed around Louisiana’s “bird’s foot,” or the part of the Mississippi River delta that splits into Southwest Pass ...