The World Wildlife Fund sees farms in the mid-Mississippi delta as ripe with opportunity to become a new mecca for commercial-scale American produce. California currently grows nearly three ...

A map shared on X, TikTok, Facebook and Threads, among other platforms, in August 2024 claimed to show the Mississippi River and its tributaries. One popular example was shared to X (archived) on ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - For some tourists, this delta boat tour provides a chance to see where the Mississippi River ends as it drains one of the world’s larger watersheds.

Intense floods in the upper Mississippi River basin may hold a silver lining for communities in the Arkansas Delta and Louisiana hit by drought, according to an association of local governments ...

In 2019, an unrelenting flood swamped more than half a million acres in the Mississippi Delta’s Yazoo Backwater. It destroyed nearly 700 homes, wiped out an entire planting season for some farms ...

As Climate Threats to Agriculture Mount, Could the Mississippi River Delta Be the Next California? The World Wildlife Fund is exploring what it would take for farms in Tennessee, Mississippi and ...