commercial and subsistence fishing in the Mississippi River, one study valued it as a billion dollar industry. The river has long faced challenges, such as industrial and agricultural pollution ...

WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 -- The controversy between Chicago and St. Louis over the pollution of the Mississippi River by the Illinois drainage canal turns on the old question as to how long a distance ...

Tackling pollution in such large ... If he had to choose, he’d pick the upper Mississippi River area, because of all of the islands and back channels. Living Lands and Waters has collected ...

In 1758, the French ethnographer Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz published The History of Louisiana, in which he wrote that the Mississippi River’s name meant “the ancient father of rivers.” ...

The river could stay above 50 feet for about two weeks, Lower Mississippi River Forecast Center senior hydrologist David Welch said Monday. The rain has stopped for now, but the basin is not yet ...

Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover and Vice Chairman of the Red Cross James Fieser. Ten thousand River Commissions, with the mines of the world at their back, can not tame that lawless stream ...

State officials are investigating after a second mysterious sheen was seen on the Mississippi River in Coon Rapids earlier this week. The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency said a sheen was ...

The Mississippi River is expected to remain in the minor flood stage through April, peaking at 37.5 feet by mid-month. After over a foot of rain fell in Memphis this past week, some rivers are in ...

Today on Louisiana Considered, we hear how proposed industrialization projects could harm people in the Lower Ninth Ward. We ...