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 ...

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.

President Trump is not the first to downplay providing federal emergency relief. During the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

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.

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 ...