Water levels in the Lower Mississippi River have dipped unusually low for a third year in a row, restricting how much grain can be transported downstream as harvest season gets underway.If levels ...

Ice duration on the upper Mississippi is shrinking. On the upper Mississippi, which stretches from the river's headwaters in northern Minnesota to Cairo, Illinois, south of St. Louis, the calmer ...

Jason DeBoer, who took an interesting path to documenting Illinois' two main rivers—the Illinois and the Mississippi—for the Illinois Natural History Survey, shares his path and insights.

Rockwood, Illinois — About eighty miles south of St. Louis, Brian Ragsdale’s boat, the Dredge Potter, has been deployed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to carve a channel out of the bed of ...

As climate change and development exacerbate the Mississippi River’s environmental problems, many communities will have to grapple with the questions facing Dogtooth Bend: how to balance the ...

In 2016, the Mississippi River punched a hole in the Len Small levee, built to protect farmland along an S-shaped curve in the river known as Dogtooth Bend. That hole was never repaired. Here ...

The rising Mississippi River was testing flood defenses in southeast Iowa and northwest Illinois as it neared forecast crests driven by a spring surge of water from melting snow.

A 2020 study that examined changes in river ice across the globe noted that on rivers that have been heavily engineered by humans — like the Mississippi — that engineering can alter how ice forms.

Legal agreements govern the Great Lakes and some river systems in the U.S., but the Mississippi River doesn’t have a compact. Some mayors on the waterway think it’s time to change that.

WINFIELD, Missouri — In the story of America, the Mississippi River is a character unto itself, a rough-hewn founding father of the West: restless, implacable, more powerful than law or nature ...

The greatest changes have occurred in places where rice has moved into deeper waters, Carhart said. Previously, wild rice was most commonly found in the still, shallow backwater areas of the river.

“It’s one of the most dramatic changes on the upper Mississippi,” Larson said. “It’s everywhere.” In the past several years, wild rice has exploded on this part of the upper river ...