These are the emerging challenges Louisiana and the nation are struggling to content with on the lower Mississippi River.

The divided ruling throws into question the legal basis for the Mississippi River plant's expansion, which has been partially ...

U.S. rivers in crisis are threatened by pollution, drought, and neglect, putting ecosystems, clean water, and communities at ...

A conservation organization has named the Mississippi River as the most endangered river in the country. Every year, the ...

animals and recreation — but the mighty Mississippi River is vulnerable. "There are a lot of concerns about plastic pollution in the environment," Ardeshir Ebtehaj, associate professor at the ...

The Mississippi River is the nation’s most endangered river, a national conservation group says, because of federal plans to ...

Flooding hasn’t been a problem along the Minnesota stretch of the Mississippi this year. But the river faces other challenges, including pollution from agriculture, said Whitney Clark ...

Lambert aimed his boat across the Mississippi to the river’s east ... The oyster farmers and some conservationists argue that pollution from the river water would wipe out the oyster fishery ...

Residents of the mostly Black communities sandwiched between chemical plants along the lower Mississippi River have long said they get most of the pollution but few of the jobs produced by the ...