A Minnesota Boat Club eight-man scull plies the waters of the Mississippi River on a training row in ... where it empties into the Gulf of Mexico. Along the way, it passes through the cities ...

The Southwest Pass, where the river approaches the Gulf of Mexico and it splits into multiple lanes, is one such area. The lower Mississippi is the top port region of the U.S. in terms of freight ...

Congress has ordered the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to conduct a five-year, $25 million study of the river from Cape Girardeau, Missouri to the Gulf ... meetings for the Lower Mississippi ...

and flooding is putting immense strain on the wetlands between the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico, threatening the wildlife and millions of humans that call the region home. The disappea ...

Overall, forest cover along the stretch of the river from Minnesota ... which stretches from where the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers meet, in Cairo, Illinois, to the Gulf of Mexico was once almost ...

[LEGISLATIVE CALENDAR: Catch up on this week's meetings ... Arkansas is connected to the Gulf through the mighty Mississippi River where its mouth meets the Gulf of Mexico.