The Mississippi River Delta is under siege – a multi-pronged attack of sediment erosion, rising sea levels, and flooding is putting immense strain on the wetlands between the Mississippi River and the ...

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

The project sets aside 20,000 acres of hardwood bottomland forests inside the Mississippi River Delta of northeastern ...

The blues music which arose from the Mississippi Delta has in many ways come to define modern American music. There is a deep ...

They brought with them slaves to do the backbreaking work of clearing the wild forest and subduing the Mississippi River with levees. As a result of the slaves' labor, the Delta became the richest ...

The Mississippi River is managed in large part by the Army Corps ... Flood projects for cities from the headwaters to the ...

Since then, every generation of settlers to the region has attempted to control the river by building levees, or protective, raised embankments, alongside it. Prior to 1882, Mississippi Delta ...

The SPLC’s Mississippi state office embarked on a multicity bus tour to hear directly from community members their struggles with advocacy and civic groups and state leaders.

The Mississippi River Delta loses 16,000 acres of wetland annually. Louisiana is just one example of a population affected by sea level rise and coastal change, so how are they preparing for the ...