A conservation organization has named the Mississippi River as the most endangered river in the country. Every year, the ...

Living Lands & Waters is a nonprofit organization that was founded in 1998 by Chad Pregracke. While living and working on the ...

The Bonnet Carre Spillway has been opened more than a dozen times since it was constructed nearly 100 years ago, but the ...

It's a vital artery for life in Minnesota, running 2,350 miles across 10 states — a source for drinking water, plants, ...

From the floodplain forests of the upper Mississippi River to the long coast of Lake Michigan, Wisconsin is rich in wetlands.

Alligators are among the most dangerous animals in the Mississippi River. Alligators of different sizes use the river as a habitat, and as such, it might be considered dangerous for inexperienced ...

The Mississippi River Floodwaters Zone (the “Zone”) includes all public and private lands within the following borders: The northern border of the Zone is the north border of the State of Tennessee ...

The states that border the Mississippi River have lost at least half of the wetlands they once had, including Wisconsin.

PAUL — A conservation organization has named the Mississippi River as the most endangered river in the country ... and is ...

It's hard to imagine where New Orleans would be today without the spillway. But despite all the good it has done, many in South Louisiana have a complicated relationship with the long-standing ...

The group American Rivers says the Mississippi faces threats including increased flooding and inadequate disaster prevention ...