A collision on the Mississippi River near Luling, Louisiana, left a tugboat submerged and its crew scrambling for safety after being hit by a tanker on Sunday night.

The Mississippi Rivers drainage basin covers 3 million km², half the land area of the United States of America. That is ten times the size of the UK and Ireland combined.

The Mississippi River basin is getting wetter as climate change brings era of extreme rain, floods By Bryce Gray, St. Louis Post-Dispatch and Connor Griffin, The Courier Journal Oct 11, 2022 ...

Midwestern soils are among the most productive in the world, thanks in part to extensive tile drainage systems that remove ...

The rivers in the Mississippi Drainage Basin, including the Mississippi, had been drastically shortened to make the distance from port to gulf significantly shorter for boatmen and cargo.

Vocal residents of the upper Amite River basin packed an East Feliciana Parish church June 30 to vent their frustrations ...

The river’s drainage basin covers about 1.2 million square miles, or nearly 40% of the Lower 48, including all or part of 31 U.S. states and two Canadian provinces.

In total, parts or all of 31 states and two Canadian provinces drain into the Mississippi River, creating a drainage basin that is around 1.25 million square miles in size according to the U.S ...

After July's floods, the Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk — a journalism partnership that includes more than 14 newsrooms — asked climate data nonprofit Climate Central to analyze 50 ...

A collision on the Mississippi River near Luling, Louisiana, left a tugboat submerged and its crew scrambling for safety after being hit by a tanker on Sunday night.

Home / News / Environmental News The Mississippi River basin is getting wetter as climate change brings era of extreme rain, floods Data analysis shows some parts of the U.S. receive up to 8 more ...