The Mississippi River Delta Transition Initiative, or MissDelta, received $22 million from the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine to examine how these critical areas of ...

The Mississippi River Delta is under siege – a multi-pronged attack of sediment erosion, rising sea levels, and flooding is putting immense strain on the wetlands between the Mississippi River ...

From the quirky coast to the soulful Delta, these small towns are the gems of Mississippi. Check out their town squares, ...

The blues music which arose from the Mississippi Delta has in many ways come to define modern American music. There is a deep ...

Iowa’s anti-French sentiments are reflected in Clayton County’s Elkader, named after Abd al-Qadir ibn Muhyi al-Din, an ...

They brought with them slaves to do the backbreaking work of clearing the wild forest and subduing the Mississippi River with levees. As a result of the slaves' labor, the Delta became the richest ...

Since then, every generation of settlers to the region has attempted to control the river by building levees, or protective, raised embankments, alongside it. Prior to 1882, Mississippi Delta ...

The subcommittee oversees spending in several agencies, such as the Department of Energy, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, ...

The Mississippi River Delta loses 16,000 acres of wetland annually. Louisiana is just one example of a population affected by sea level rise and coastal change, so how are they preparing for the ...