An active weather pattern has led to some increases in water levels along the Mississippi River. National Weather Service ...

Welcome to the heart of the Mississippi Delta, where the blues meet Southern hospitality and rich cultural heritage awaits at ...

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

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 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 ...

and the drainage basin of the Mississippi, including the river delta. The future state of Iowa was a part of this vast French colonial territory, with the French explorer Jacques Marquette ...

The Mississippi River is managed in large part by the Army Corps ... Flood projects for cities from the headwaters to the delta Cities and towns along the river could get help for the localized ...