The supply chain across the nation's heartland is facing significant constraints that could have far-reaching consequences into the winter, starting with farmers in the Plains and expanding all the ...

Millions of acres of wetlands across the country lost protections that existed under the Clean Water Act after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling last year left it up to states to decide the extent of ...

When it was first constructed in July, the sill at the bottom of the Mississippi River north of Myrtle Grove in Plaquemines Parish gave the river a uniform depth of about 60 feet. The idea was to ...

The enormous Mississippi River, the 13th largest river in the world in terms of flow, occupies a central place in U.S. geography, economy and culture. The river is a huge part of the country's ...

The Army Corps of Engineers announced Wednesday that it will build an underwater dam in the Mississippi River to stop saltwater from advancing farther upstream. The advancing saltwater is due to the ...

The U.S. Coast Guard broadcast warnings to barge operators and sent a crew to Cape Girardeau Friday after an enormous storage tank broke free in a flash flood and lodged itself in the shipping channel ...

ON THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER – In the wheelhouse high atop the rumbling, 240-foot boat, James Garner perched in a chair surrounded by levers, dials and screens. Below him, the Dredge Potter inched up a ...

The fall in water levels on the Mississippi River, now lower in some places than they have ever been since recording began in 1954, is an alarming reminder of the climate catastrophe facing the world ...