In February 1951, a sudden drop in the icy Mississippi River left several barges stranded at Marquette Cement plant docks.

The data that Burdis and Jankowski are looking at is much newer, dating back about 30 years, but it shows a similar trend.

Last fall, for example, they scattered between ... has planted more than two million trees along waterways in the Mississippi River Basin. The Nature Conservancy, using U.S. Department of ...

As winter weather comes down from the north, bringing with it ice along the Mississippi River, eagles, trumpeter swans, and ...

Flood control along the Mississippi River is a central piece of a newly passed federal law — work that advocates believe is critical as the river basin sees more frequent and severe extreme weather ...