Minnesota is giving its water quality standards a fresh look. With public input in their hands, officials are under pressure to add language about nitrate levels, a move some said is long overdue.

A first-of-its-kind project seeking to restore river ecosystems along 39 miles of the Lower Mississippi River has federal ...

The Mississippi River is managed in large part by the Army Corps, so it often features prominently in the bill, with a dual ...

A West Virginia University researcher is working to understand and estimate environmental cleanup costs associated with ...

Research shows that across the globe, rivers that freeze are freezing later and melting earlier, and that includes the ...

nutrient pollution and climate change. Kirsten Wallace, executive director of the Upper Mississippi River Basin Association, called this year’s water resources act “a pretty special one.” ...

New research on the cost of reducing the Gulf of Mexico’s dead zone places a $7 billion dollar annual price tag on reaching ...

Pollution is causing concern for the overall ... as it passes from Carver to the confluence with the Mississippi River in Mendota Heights. The watershed includes several suburbs, such as ...

The Mississippi River is managed in large part by the Army Corps, so it often features prominently in the bill, with a dual aim of making the river more suitable for shipping and restoring ...

Pollution is causing concern for the overall and long-term health of the state’s third-longest river. The Minnesota River flows 318 miles from the state’s western border to St. Paul.

nutrient pollution and climate change. Kirsten Wallace, executive director of the Upper Mississippi River Basin Association, called this year’s WRDA “a pretty special one.” She said it ...