The mighty Mississippi River teems with wildlife as it rolls 2,350 miles from Minnesota to Louisiana. Abundant fish like largemouth bass, catfish, and waterfowl like wood ducks and Canadian geese make ...

Urgent flood warnings swept across Washington, Mississippi, and Louisiana on January 11, 2026, as swollen rivers pushed past ...

Gum makers have claimed, for decades, chewing is good for your mental health. They’re kind of on to something. Humans have chewed on gum for millennia. Scientists are still trying to figure out why.

A natural experiment in a national park in Patagonia shows how the return of a large predator can reshape an ecosystem. Long absent from Argentinian Patagonia due to over-hunting, pumas have returned ...

This video explains the collapse of a major Mississippi River bridge. A design flaw combined with added weight proved catastrophic. Inspections failed to detect the true risk. Structural components ...

JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – As prison populations see major declines nationally, recent data indicated that Mississippi is one of five states heading in the opposite direction. Much of the nationwide ...

A new study overturns previous findings that domestic cats originated thousands of years earlier. An African wildcat (Felis lybica) rests on a rock in Kruger National Park, South Africa. So far, ...

Fishing duo Cole and Jay fish the mighty Mississippi and hook an unbelievable catch. Massive fraud allegations in California: What we know Astronomers on 'Cloud-9' after discovering first-of-its-kind ...

Mississippi's history lives on through the buildings, districts, structures and sites that remain from decades and centuries past. Several of those historical resources are listed under the National ...

In the last two years, National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek traversed the Chinese countryside, marched along the Korean Demilitarized Zone and fended off grizzly bears in Alaska. Now, his ...