The severe drought affecting the Mississippi River has exposed alarming and unsettling horrors hidden beneath its surface. In ...

The serious drought in much of the United States over the past several months is having an impact on the Mississippi River, the second-longest river in the country after the Missouri River.

You can get in touch with Robyn by emailing [email protected] The Mississippi River is the latest body of water in North America to be hit by ongoing drought. The second-longest river in the ...

Photos and satellite imagery from the central United States show how the region’s worst drought in at least a decade has pushed the Mississippi River and its tributaries to drop to record lows ...

The US Army Corps of Engineers has been dredging the Mississippi River 24/7 since July. Drought along the Mississippi has dropped water levels to lows that haven't been seen in a decade.

Drought has sent water levels plunging to near record lows on the Mississippi River. A river gauge near Corps headquarters registers just 3 feet above sea level. "It's approaching some historical ...

talking with people whose lives and livelihoods are inextricably linked to the Mississippi River and with people who had come to marvel at how drastically the ongoing drought has weakened it.

The Mississippi River hovered just a few inches below the low-water mark in Memphis Wednesday afternoon — a notable improvement after months of record drought, but still unusually low for this ...

The 2,340-mile-long Mississippi River is so low from hot, dry weather just a few months after severe floods helped replenish it from critically low water levels last year. A drought has ...

Mississippi River: Threatened by FEMA’s uncertain ... Lower Rio Grande: Threatened by a mega-drought and outdated water management. 6. Rappahannock River: Threatened by declining groundwater ...

Other Mississippi tributaries like the Ohio River and nearby states like Iowa might suffer from even more significant impacts of drought. Barges can’t transport as much product when water levels ...