At 2,350 miles long, the Mississippi River is an aquatic superhighway and drains 40% of the continental U.S. Carried along in the vast water flow is an ever-present sidecar of sediment ...

The Bird's Foot Delta, a crucial ecological and economic hub, faces an uncertain future amid rising seas and dwindling sediment.

The Mississippi River Delta is under siege – a multi-pronged attack of sediment erosion, rising sea levels, and flooding is ...

At Mississippi State University, we're starting in the Gulf of Mexico where a small but crucial barrier island is quickly fading from view. Millions of state dollars are spent dredging sand to replace ...

The projects will emphasize nature-based solutions to blunt the impacts of some of the river's major problems, like flooding and drought.

There's new controversy over a proposed infrastructure project in eastern Iowa. The town of guttenberg, iowa, is known for ...