Map Shows Every River That Flows to the Mighty Mississippi. A new look at the Mississippi’s enormous watershed reveals the true size and strength of the world’s fourth longest river.

For example, on his map of the United States, the pink spider-webbing across nearly half the country represents the massive Jefferson-Mississippi-Missouri River system, which includes, of course ...

In the Upper Mississippi River system, state resource management agencies, federal agencies and others have positioned themselves for success. Let’s do the same throughout the basin.

This story appears in the December 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. For cartographers and cartophiles, Harold Fisk’s 1944 maps of the lower Mississippi River are a seminal work. In ...

More than a third of the rain in the United States ends up in the Mississippi River system. Jones says with little or no rainfall coming from the Midwest, the drought is causing problems along the ...

ALONG THE RIVER — The Mississippi runs the spine of America, touching 10 states and draining waters from 21 more, a vast waterway with a rich mythology, a sometimes powerful beauty and an always ...

The vast Mississippi River—the second longest river in North America—swirls through a number of U.S. states and has been swelling in recent weeks. That may continue, experts say.

At Hidden Falls Regional Park in St. Paul, the Mississippi River is unusually high for late June, but that hasn’t stopped 62-year-old Bernie Garon from going fishing. He casts his line, then … ...

After decades of setbacks, a plan to construct a major pumping system for the Yazoo Backwater Basin is gaining federal and state support. Photo courtesy U.S. Army Corps of Engineers January 12, 2021 ...

The lock-and-dam system through which 175 million tons of freight travels on the upper Mississippi River each year is sorely outdated, and vulnerable to failure that could have a profound effect ...