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

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

The Ohio River Basin Alliance, a group of agencies, research institutions and nonprofits, has been working on a restoration ...

In a special report, USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin examines how federal cuts could impact invasive species monitoring on Lake ...

It's not just Cahokia Heights. Five dozen communities in Southern Illinois account for a third of the reported sanitary sewer overflows in the state in the last decade.

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 ...

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.

On the upper Mississippi, which stretches from the river's headwaters in northern Minnesota to Cairo, Illinois, south of St. Louis, the calmer, shallower offshoots of the river known as the ...

A wild rice plant is pictured on the upper Mississippi River near Goose Island County Park in the town of Shelby, Wisconsin on Sept. 17, 2024. Credit: Madeline Heim, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ...

A wild rice bed grows on the upper Mississippi River near Goose Island County Park on Sept. 17 in the town of Shelby, Wis. After disappearing for decades, wild rice is rebounding on parts of the ...

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.