It will take days for major floodwaters to work their way south through the Mississippi. Flooding will persist through April.

It’s the second-longest river in North America, beaten only by the Missouri River. You’ll find the Mississippi at its narrowest point at its headwaters in Lake Itasca, where it’s between 20 ...

In 1758, the French ethnographer Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz published The History of Louisiana, in which he wrote that the Mississippi River ... late Cretaceous North America, that gave ...

The Mississippi River is considered the most endangered in the U.S. due to uncertainty over the Federal Emergency Management ...

The Missouri River is the longest river in North America. It flows for nearly 4,000 km before joining the Mississippi River. The taiga forest is a biome spread over several continents in the ...