Living Lands & Waters is a nonprofit organization that was founded in 1998 by Chad Pregracke. While living and working on the ...

Old Man River, indeed. Still, 70 million years ago the Mississippi was nowhere near as large as it would become. Blum has detailed how the waterway grew as it added tributaries: the Platte ...

The Big Muddy River, a tributary of the Mississippi River running through Southern Illinois, is seeing its highest flood levels in years. Cape Girardeau has opened up green space over the last ...

The filmer said: 'Aerial of the flooding around Cairo, IL and Wickliffe, KY. The flooding has been so brutal.' Officials at the National Weather Service said the Mississippi River water levels ...

Despite constant and intense rain late last week and into the weekend, river levels in the area are decreasing. According to the National Weather Service, the Mississippi River at Grafton ...

McKellar Lake acts as a collection point for debris that would otherwise flow into the Mississippi ... and working on the river around his home in East Moline, Illinois, Pregracke was disturbed ...