Iowa’s anti-French sentiments are reflected in Clayton County’s Elkader, named after Abd al-Qadir ibn Muhyi al-Din, an ...

Flood control along the Mississippi River ... the stakeholders along the river, including shippers, environmental advocates, riverfront communities and federal and state agencies — who don ...

We revisit Here & Now's June 2024 conversation with Boyce Upholt about his book "The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi ... to a more natural state.

Flood control along the Mississippi River ... stakeholders along the river, including shippers, environmental advocates, riverfront communities and federal and state agencies — who don’t ...

The Mississippi ... the Mississippi River Delta is allowed to continue deteriorating. Almost half of the Louisiana population – over 2 million people — lives near the state’s coastal zone ...

Most of the country experienced dry weather except for West and Gulf coasts, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor.

Advocates for the Mississippi River argue that the river is long overdue to have its own such program. Millions of people up and down a swath of the central United States rely on it for drinking ...

The levels of COVID-19 present in wastewater around the country is on the rise, new data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reveals. 20 U.S. states (plus D.C.) had ...

The National Hydrography Dataset Plus High Resolution map of waterways, created by the US Geological Survey, is the highest-resolution survey of its kind. With nearly 25 million rivers, streams, pipe ...

The Mississippi River's Bird's Foot Delta, a vital ecological and economic region, faces rapid deterioration because of rising sea levels, sediment shortages and invasive species. Louisiana State ...

RAGBRAI 2025 will take riders on a scenic journey this summer to the Iowa Great Lakes near the Minnesota border, through the ...

An American Airlines plane carrying 60 passengers and four crew members collided with an Army Black Hawk helicopter outside ...