This was the Río del Espíritu Santo—the river, nearly every scholar agrees, that local tribes called the Mississippi. Santa ...

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Guidewire, a provider of software solutions to the insurance industry, has released critical data and maps detailing ...

The rupture was thought to have occurred around 19 miles from the Mississippi River Delta, while a flyover at ... of the water on Saturday and Sunday. A map produced by the NOAA gave a forecast ...

The World Wildlife Fund is exploring what it would take for farms in, Mississippi and Arkansas to become a new mecca for ...

Francine made landfall over the Louisiana coast as a Category 2 hurricane early Wednesday evening before quickly weakening to ...

Increased river flooding and decreased economic opportunity have led to population loss in the Arkansas Delta, including in ...

Construction has begun on a saltwater sill near Myrtle Grove to help mitigate the effects of saltwater intrusion up the ...

The roughly 20-acre farm west of the Tennessee River sells about half of its ... The World Wildlife Fund sees farms in the mid-Mississippi delta as ripe with opportunity to become a new mecca ...

Tropical Storm Francine is expected to become a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico before making landfall over Louisiana.