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 ...

NASA scientists estimate that the Mississippi River annually carries about 500 million tons of sediment to the Gulf of Mexico. Locked in a straightjacket of levees, the river no longer feeds this ...

One would think that Republicans would know better. One would think that Republicans from an important oil- and gas-producing ...

How much sediment does a river carry ... The largest river in the United States, the Mississippi River, provides an important commercial route for goods and services from the entire Midwestern ...

The Commercial Appeal wrote, "'Mud Island' is only a nickname for what was originally a sandbar which appeared in what used ...

Maloz added her group is involved in various projects along the Mississippi River, using sediment to replenish marshes, rebuild ridges and barrier islands and create habitats for migratory birds.

ST. LOUIS – The “Mighty” Mississippi River is a true giant of American waterways, but if you’re wondering exactly how long it is, don’t expect one single, definitive answer. On Wednesday ...

The Mississippi River has been on the rise, as tends to happen this time of year, but while relatively minor precautions are being put in place by the Army Corps of Engineers, an opening of the ...

She completed an honors thesis evaluating the organic and mineral content of suspended sediment in the Mississippi River during the falling hydrograph. She then worked as a research assistant at the ...