The risk of Mississippi River flooding in the Quad-Cities this spring is below normal, according to an early forecast by the ...
The data that Burdis and Jankowski are looking at is much newer, dating back about 30 years, but it shows a similar trend.
A first-of-its-kind project seeking to restore river ecosystems along 39 miles of the Lower Mississippi River has federal ...
Bald eagles love calling the Mississippi River home, but why? The answer lies in the perfect combination of abundant fish, ...
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has halted a key project meant to defend the Great Lakes from invasive carp, citing federal funding ...
which is also part of the upper Mississippi River system. Last winter proved to be an extreme example of that trend, with scientists estimating less than one month of safe ice on the river.
The federal government and Corps began extensively fixing the river in place through a system of levees after the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 inundated 27,000 square miles. The levees ...
KELLOGG, Minnesota - Standing on the frozen Mississippi River, his back to a few fishers in the distance, Rob Burdis begins to drill a hole into the ice near his feet. Once the drill stops, the only ...