The Mississippi River is part of the Mississippi-Atchafalaya River Basin, ... "Water from parts or all of 31 states drains into the Mississippi River, and creates a drainage basin over 1,245,000 ...

Using FEMA data, the Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk found an increase in flood-related disaster declarations from 1967 to today in the 10 mainstem Mississippi River states: Arkansas ...

In the early morning hours of July 26, many St. Louis-area residents awoke to floodwater filling their homes, or to the din of car alarms from vehicles overtaken by murky brown water. Too much ...

The Columbia River is the third largest grain export gateway in the world behind only the Mississippi and Brazil’s Paraná.

The Mississippi River is the second longest river in the U.S., ... Its 1.2 million square mile drainage basin includes 32 U.S. states and two Canadian provinces, ...

The Mississippi River basin is getting wetter as climate change brings era of extreme rain, floods Data analysis shows some parts of the U.S. receive up to 8 more inches of rain each year then ...

In the wake of July’s floods, the Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk – a journalism partnership that includes more than 14 newsrooms, including the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel – asked ...

As of Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2022, the black carp is known to be an established population in the Mississippi watershed, which is the second-largest drainage system in North America.

This story is a product of the Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk, an independent reporting network based at the University of Missouri in partnership with Report for America, with major ...

It’s also the country’s largest drainage basin, and drought conditions are sweeping the U.S. More than half of the Upper Mississippi River Basin and more than 90% of the lower basin are ...

Findings showed that the eastern half of the U.S. is getting far wetter on average, with some areas – including parts of the Mississippi River Basin – now receiving up to 8 more inches of rain ...