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 ...

Context: The map is an artistic rendering depicting attributes of the Mississippi River watershed — not ... and 41% of the conterminous United States, also known as the "Lower 48." ...

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

"But we had one white spot on our map, and it said 'USA,'" Hagen said. That was part of the motivation for the company to design its first vessel purpose-built for the Mississippi River ...

By Madeline Heim, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, and Delaney Dryfoos, The Lens The Mississippi River is the nation’s most ...

A prolonged and dangerous flood event is unfolding along the Mississippi River, where heavy rain that fell this month across the Ohio and Mississippi river basins have pushed the waterway to ...

The US Army Corps of Engineers has ... drought could strike the river every five to 10 years. Forecast maps show the Mississippi's drought may end soon Much of the Mississippi River basin is ...

A new round of heavy rain will target some of the same areas of the central United States that were swamped ... through the lowest portion of the Mississippi River and is leading to moderate ...

Drought across the central US is shrinking the Mississippi River, sending barge rates soaring and threatening to roil shipments of everything from corn to gasoline. Dry conditions across the Ohio ...

Now, they were official emissaries of the United States government ... included territory that stretched all the way to the Mississippi River, to the western edges of what would become Wisconsin ...