The Mississippi’s ranking comes as cities along the river flooded from torrential rain and as Trump officials consider ...

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The river is threatened primarily by FEMA's uncertain future, said American Rivers, an environmental group based in ...

The list calls attention to the threats rivers face and prioritizes those for which the public can influence policies that ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.” ...