Mississippi River

The legal movement to grant natural entities like forests and rivers the same legal rights as humans has won meaningful success abroad, and has in recent years picked up steam in the United States.

We close our week-long series of conversations about the Mississippi River with a townhall event from deep in Louisiana's Mississippi River delta. Audio…

After the Mississippi River flooded four years ago, state and federal authorities offered buyouts to affected homeowners. Now the state budget impasse has…

This episode brings us to New Orleans to explore the way the river divides people and the way a changing climate exacerbates that problem. Our guests are…

What happens here in the fields and farms of Illinois, Iowa, and the rest of the Midwest has an effect on the Mississippi River and its watershed all way…

In many towns and cities along the river, there are clashes over levees, diversion plans. dredging drainage and development. Are we listening to more than…

The Mississippi River snakes over 2,000 miles from the United States' northern border, along the entire Illinois western border, to the Gulf coast. But…

Heavy rains have led to flooding all across the Midwest in recent days: in Iowa, Illinois, and in the small town of Clarksville, Missouri, which sits on…

Two Mississippi River bridges are closed due to flooding, and with more storms in the forecast, there is growing concern that conditions could worsen in…

A new study indicates that the naturally occurring filtration systems in the Mississippi River are being overwhelmed by the amount of nitrogen going into…