WBUR

After 8 decades, a huge flood-control project in Mississippi may finally get built

In 2019, an unrelenting flood swamped more than half a million acres in the Mississippi Delta’s Yazoo Backwater. It destroyed nearly 700 homes, wiped out an entire planting season for some farms and ...
WWNO

New dashboard provides drought data across Mississippi River Basin

Southeast Louisiana is abnormally dry. The top and bottom of the Mississippi River has had high streamflows this month, but about a quarter of gauges throughout the basin show below-normal flow.
The Hill

Conservation group names Mississippi River ‘most endangered,’ cites proposed FEMA cuts

A conservation group on Wednesday named the Mississippi River the “most endangered river of 2025,” citing threats to abolish the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), which plays a key role in ...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

First-ever National Mississippi River Day frames the river as 'the great connector'

One Mississippi, an environmental advocacy group, is declaring June 2 the first-ever National Mississippi River Day. Multiple river cities and a few states have formally recognized the day, including ...