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 ...

The Mississippi River delta in particular has lost approximately 70% of its land area since 1932 due to coastal erosion, sea level rise and human activities like oil and gas extraction.

The growing Wax Lake Delta provided data for the now-stalled Mid-Barataria sediment diversion, which is designed to rebuild wetlands in nine parishes along the Louisiana Gulf Coast.

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 ...

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 ...

Having grown up in a rural area in northeast Louisiana's Mississippi River Delta region, his main geographic area of interest are the cotton, rice, sugar cane and other farmlands of his home state.