River barges are an efficient way to move crops — 15 barges can hold about as much grain as 1,000 semi-trucks. But low river ...

An influx of salt water in the Mississippi River, which feeds southeastern Louisiana’s drinking water supplies, is once again ...

Santa Cruz’s map shows an oval expanse, covering the whole Mississippi Delta and stretching north to include ... The map had ...

Armed with new protections, this turtle could be the catalyst for halting a huge and controversial engineering project ...

On a clear, hot summer afternoon along the Bogue Chitto creek at Walker’s Bridge Water Park in southern, Noah Devros dives ...

A map of the Mississippi River basin and the river’s major tributaries. (Annie Ropeik, Ag & Water Desk/Data via U.S.

How we turned one of our country’s biggest rivers into a machine — and what happens when that machine starts to break down.

Francine slammed the Louisiana coast last evening with 100 mph winds in coastal Terrebonne Parish, battering a fragile coastal region that hasn’t fully recovered from a series of devastating ...

The storm could drive life-threatening coastal flooding, high winds, drenching rain and a few tornadoes, forecasters said.

The danger of "life-threatening" coastal storm surge remained a major concern from the sixth and strongest storm of the hurricane season.

We sampled both upstream and downstream in the creek, testing for several factors that might be contributing to the orange water. Map of sampling locations along French Creek Based on our samples, a ...

We compared the map in question to those published in scientific literature depicting the watershed, drainage basin and tributaries of the Mississippi River. Though there were similarities between ...