ROCK ISLAND, Ill. — Hundreds of city leaders from along the Mississippi River met this weekend in St. Paul to address plastic pollution and discuss new strategies for cleanup. “Just having that ...

16 WAPT BETHAL MILES JOIN US LIVE IN THE STUDIO WITH SOME OF WHAT WAS DISCUSSED. THIS WEEK, MAYORS FROM ACROSS THE COUNTRY MEET IN ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA WITH THE UNITED NATIONS AND RESEARCHERS TO TACKLE ...

DAVENPORT, Iowa (KWQC) - A new survey finds that Latino voters who live near the Mississippi River value the river and are worried about pollution. The poll by the Hispanic Access Foundation, an ...

On a sunny February morning, Shawn Giblin and Jeremy King pack their work truck and make the one-hour journey downriver to Lynxville, Wisconsin, where they will collect water samples from the banks of ...

Worsening local effects on health and recreation in states like Minnesota and Wisconsin are spurring action on problems that also cause the Gulf of Mexico’s chronic “dead zone.” ELBA, Minn. – Jeff ...

The Memphis Flyer is Memphis’ alternative newsweekly, serving the metro Memphis area of nearly a million residents. The Flyer was started in 1989 by Contemporary Media, Inc., the locally owned ...

At the headwaters of the Mississippi River, in Lake Itasca, the water is clear. It is untouched by pollution, and people can drink it without worry, said Sharon Day, Ojibwe tribe member and executive ...

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 ...

Researcher Carrie Jennings paddled by farm tile drains emptying into the South Fork Crow River, a major source of Mississippi River pollution. (Mark Vancleave, Star Tribune/The Minnesota Star Tribune) ...

The nation’s rivers and streams remain stubbornly polluted with nutrients that contaminate drinking water and fuel a gigantic dead zone for aquatic life in the Gulf of Mexico, according to a recently ...