The Mississippi ... gets to the ocean, but it’s still there,” Wendt said. Here’s what to know about the study results, what’s next for reducing plastic and trash along the river and ...

The ocean is winning. Whatever the climate brings in a year, the Mississippi River keeps the score. This year’s saltwater intrusion “is the integration of all these environmental events that ...

New research shows that typically, less than 10% of land-building alluvium reaches the Bird’s Foot Delta region, the ...

Water levels on the Mississippi River are nearing historic lows for the second consecutive year, triggering a drinking water emergency in Louisiana as ocean water flows upstream, unimpeded by the ...

Water levels along the Mississippi River are plummeting for the second ... the threat of saltwater intrusion is growing in Louisiana as ocean water pushes north into drinking water systems ...

The waters of the Mississippi River have fallen to ... On the Louisiana coast, the river is so low that ocean water from the Gulf of Mexico began pushing upstream. USACE is racing to build a ...

Oh, sure, the Mississippi River has been low this fall ... the historical marks are influenced by the daily rise and fall of ocean tides in the Gulf of Mexico, only about 100 miles downstream ...

A tug with a barge makes its way through the channel on the Mississippi River near the Quad Cities ... to the Gulf and then to the ocean. "It may not look like a plastic beverage bottle by the ...