An active weather pattern has led to some increases in water levels along the Mississippi River. National Weather Service ...

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

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 ...

The seventh annual Cook-Off for the Coast at Docville Farm in St. Bernard Parish saw approximately 1,200 attendees and raised ...

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 ...

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 ...