Crews are set to blow up the 94-year-old Black Hawk Bridge bridge over the Mississippi River. The implosion Friday will bring a dramatic end to the riveted cantilever bridge between Iowa and Wisconsin ...

A stretch of Mississippi River landscape changed in a matter of seconds on Wednesday, Dec. 17, as Entergy Mississippi ...

Lundgren, who calls himself the Glacial Gold Hunter, is a 40-year-old geologist who has spent the last year and a half ...

Ancient Mars is starting to look less like a scattered patchwork of dried-up valleys and more like a planet once ruled by continent-scale rivers. For the first time, scientists have traced giant ...

For more than a century, astronomers debated the possibility of martian canali (channels) which Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli claimed to see on the Red Planet in 1877. Mistranslated into ...

Louisiana is shrinking. Since the early 1930s, the state has lost about 2,000 square miles of land for a variety of reasons ...

Pearl River map turtles are named for the beautiful and intricate patterns on their shell, which resemble topographic maps.

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — The Mississippi River Bridge is back open after a lengthy closure due to a man climbing the bridge’s superstructure. The West Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office ...

Water levels on portions of the Mississippi and lower Ohio rivers have dropped low enough to significantly hinder shipping across the inland waterway system. This marks the third year in four that ...

Farmers rely on the Mississippi River to ship grain and bring them imported fertilizer and other critical inputs. But another year of low river levels means barge travel will be more expensive. The ...

LE CLAIRE, Iowa — A single mother and seven of her children are paddling their way down the entire Mississippi River — all 2,300 miles of it. For Nikki Bettis, the journey is as much about adventure ...

Work is underway to build a new island in the Mississippi River near Hastings, a $10 million project aimed at preserving the lock-and-dam system that allows some 10 million tons of goods to be shipped ...