The Gazette

Mississippi River named the most endangered of 2025 by nonprofit American Rivers

The Mississippi River rises to flood stage surrounding a highway outside Memphis in 2016. Memphis is again flooding this month after heavy rains. (Andrew Breig/Daily Memphian) Buy Photo The Gazette ...
The Clarion-Ledger

Why Mississippi River is top of endangered rivers list. What you need to know

The Mississippi River is considered the most endangered in the U.S. due to uncertainty over the Federal Emergency Management Agency's future, according to an environmental group based in Washington ...
The Hill

Conservation group names Mississippi River ‘most endangered,’ cites proposed FEMA cuts

A conservation group on Wednesday named the Mississippi River the “most endangered river of 2025,” citing threats to abolish the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), which plays a key role in ...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

First-ever National Mississippi River Day frames the river as 'the great connector'

One Mississippi, an environmental advocacy group, is declaring June 2 the first-ever National Mississippi River Day. Multiple river cities and a few states have formally recognized the day, including ...