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

There are many salt “licks” along Saline Bayou, but the most famous of the licks used by immigrants to the New World was ...

When Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005 and triggered catastrophic federal floodwall breaches along the Lower 9th Ward side of ...

President-elect Donald Trump said Tuesday that he would move to try to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America,” a ...

Under construction since August 2023, the diversion project would direct a massive amount of Mississippi River freshwater and ... Parish into the Barataria basin. The goal is to rebuild up to ...

Overnight, strong winds swept through northwest Oregon and southwest Washington, leading to widespread power outages. The National Weather Service issued a High Wind Warning along ...

Government agencies and nonprofits are trying to reverse Mississippi River forestland decline by planting new trees, and volunteers are key.

I hope to continue this work and marry it with my prior beat, putting a spotlight on the growing ways the environment affects our health.

The river passes through 10 states: Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana. Its 1.2 million square mile drainage basin includes 32 ...

For instance, since 2007, Living Lands and Waters has planted more than two million trees along waterways in the Mississippi River Basin. The Nature Conservancy, using U.S. Department of ...