The Mississippi River crested in New Orleans this week, capping an anxious period for the engineers and residents who live ...

President Lyndon Johnson even flew out from Washington, D.C., to survey the destruction and pledge all necessary assistance ...

The Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk, a journalism collaborative based at the University of Missouri School of ...

Throughout the Mississippi River watershed, wetlands store floodwater, improve drinking water quality and serve as homes for millions of birds and other animals. But this special ecosystem is ...

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

In less than 10 years, three catastrophic floods ravaged northwestern Wisconsin and changed the way people think about water.

Madeline Heim is a Report for America corps reporter who writes about environmental issues in the Mississippi River watershed and across Wisconsin. Contact her at (920) 996-7266 or [email protected].

a conservation initiative in an area of the Mississippi River watershed located about 70 miles upriver of Baton Rouge. The goal of this work is to restore and enhance 10,000 wetland acres and ...

In the Marengo watershed, Gingras worked with one landowner ... to flooding have been gaining popularity all along the Mississippi River. Wisconsin’s program could serve as a national model ...