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

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 Mississippi River Delta Transition Initiative, or MissDelta, received $22 million from the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine to examine how these critical areas of ...

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

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

Delta Harvest is partnering with the World Wildlife Fund to create a network of women and Black-owned specialty rice farms.

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 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.

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 ...

More ducks are in Arkansas than there were in December, but still far fewer than their long-term average. The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission offered this assessment in its annual Mid-Winter Aerial ...