The Mississippi River Delta is under siege – a multi-pronged attack of sediment erosion, rising sea levels, and flooding is ...

For most, it’s hard to imagine paddling the entire length of the Mississippi River, from its headwaters at Minnesota’s Lake ...

The Bird's Foot Delta, a crucial ecological and economic hub, faces an uncertain future amid rising seas and dwindling sediment.

More than a decade ago, a Democrat floated the idea as part of a rebuke of anti-immigrant legislation proposed in Mississippi.

Could President-elect Donald Trump change the name of the Gulf of Mexico? In a news conference at his Florida home at Mar-a-Lago, Trump said he wanted to change the name of the Gulf "pretty soon." ...

The low-oxygen conditions that form in the Gulf each summer kill bottom-living organisms and result in fish and shrimp moving ...

The Gulf of Mexico has been known by many names over the years. Renaming it could cause navigational issues for international ...

Americans and Mexicans diverge on what to call another key body of water, the river that forms ... American city of “Mexico.” ...

It's not the first time renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America has come up. In 2012, Democrat state Rep. Steve Holland of Mississippi proposed renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf ...

After running marathons in all 50 states and biking from Virginia to Oregon, Paul Mellor kayaked down the Mississippi River from Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico last summer.