This story is part of When It Rains, a special series from the Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk. The Mississippi River basin is getting wetter as climate change brings era of extreme rain ...

New research shows that typically, less than 10% of land-building alluvium reaches the Bird’s Foot Delta region, the ...

Sand, silt and clay is essential to rebuilding — or, at this point, maintaining — the fragile coastline that has been ...

(Annie Ropeik/Ag & Water Desk) Maisah Khan, policy director for the Mississippi River Network, said she starts every presentation by showing a map of the basin — pointing out the headwaters and ...

More: Extreme rainfall and historic floods are transforming life in the vast Mississippi River basin. The challenge: How do we respond? FEMA assists communities during floods and other types of ...

Knowable Magazine reports that as birds’ traditional resting and nesting spots become inhospitable by the blistering pace of ...

According to the National Wildlife Federation, nearly 20 million people rely on the Mississippi River Basin for daily drinking water. The river also helps support a billion-dollar industry that ...

The Water Resources Development Act was signed ... Kirsten Wallace, executive director of the Upper Mississippi River Basin Association, called this year’s WRDA “a pretty special one.” ...

The panel, led by Mississippi River Basin Panel administrator Elizabeth ... we need to dredge it, so the water flows faster out of it and doesn’t overflow into our neighboring states.” ...

This is typically when water moves faster and can cause harm to people. The Mississippi River basin encompasses parts of all of 31 states and two Canadian provinces. The river basin is over ...

The Amite River Basin Commission is proposing to preserve this 4,265-acre region of lowland swamp in South Baton Rouge for ...