The Mississippi River is the nation’s most endangered river, a national conservation group says, because of federal plans to ...

In 1758, the French ethnographer Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz published The History of Louisiana, in which he wrote that the Mississippi River’s ... of unprecedented public works, as the ...

public influence potential, and importance to people and nature. The mighty Mississippi ranks at the top of a new listing of the nation's "most endangered" rivers. The river is threatened ...

Three state wildlife management areas and one national wildlife refuge have hunting closures in place due to flooding. Two ...

named the Mississippi River the "most endangered river" of 2025. The group publishes a list yearly of at-risk rivers that the public can influence the future of. This year, the group says the ...