A new accounting of nitrogen pollution in the Mississippi-Atchafalaya River Basin (MARB) reveals a significant decline in ...

HAVRE DE GRACE, Md. — As environmental groups and policy analysts in the Mississippi River basin seek solutions to shrink a massive “dead zone” that forms off the coast of Louisiana each year, they ...

From the deck of his expansive marina near the mouth of the Mississippi River, Rene Cross says he hopes he doesn’t have to deal with it all again. The corroded washing machines and ice makers, the ...

Communities in Plaquemines Parish, at the mouth of the Mississippi River in southern Louisiana, are on alert yet again as salt water threatens to spoil their drinking water supply for a third ...

A map shared on X, TikTok, Facebook and Threads, among other platforms, in August 2024 claimed to show the Mississippi River and its tributaries. One popular example was shared to X (archived) on Aug.

ELBA, Minn. – Jeff Broberg’s well sits inside a wooden shed not too far from a field he rented about a decade ago to a local farmer. A farmer in Illinois sprays emerging corn in June 2020; The ...

Three teenagers who disappeared after falling into the Mississippi River near the Crescent City Connection. A Chalmette actor who had a recurring role in HBO's "Treme." A 55-year-old barge worker who ...

BATON ROUGE, La. — An influx of salt water in the Mississippi River, which feeds southeastern Louisiana's drinking water supplies, is once again creeping up the waterway. For the third year in a row, ...

Water levels on portions of the Mississippi and lower Ohio rivers have dropped low enough to significantly hinder shipping across the inland waterway system. This marks the third year in four that ...

The water level of the Mississippi River is unusually low for the third straight year, forcing barge companies to put limits on how much cargo they can carry and cutting into farm profits. It was just ...

Sluggish progress on reducing nutrient runoff into the Bay marks an inconvenient truth, but offers lessons for others seeking to clean their watersheds. HAVRE DE GRACE, Md. — As environmental groups ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Water levels on portions of the Mississippi and lower Ohio rivers have dropped low enough to significantly hinder shipping across ...