While there are thousands of news stories about what's happening, I found myself wanting basic knowledge about how the Mississippi works now. It's such a complex hybrid human-natural system with a ...

To Save a Dying Swamp, Louisiana Aims to Restore the Mississippi River's Natural Flow GARYVILLE, La. (AP) — Louisiana has long relied on a vast levee system to rein in the Mississippi River and ...

Luke built a computer model of the devastating 2011 floods along the Mississippi and Ohio rivers. Then he compared modeling runs conducted both with and without the levee detonations. He ...

On May 20, just before the levee break ... problems clear. Mississippi journalist Harris Dickson wrote in a nationally syndicated, 12-part series on the flood: “Glance at a map of Father ...

A staccato series of explosions lit up the night sky Monday over the Mississippi with orange flashes and opened a massive hole in the Birds Point levee. A wall of water up to 15 feet high swiftly ...

In Missouri, a levee failure along the Mississippi caused a mandatory evacuation in the West Quincy area, the Marion County Sheriff’s Office told CNN. MANDATORY EVACUATION ORDER FOR WEST QUINCY ...

Authorities in southern Illinois urged residents living behind a levee to move to higher ground Friday after Mississippi River water topped it. The Len Small levee in the far southwestern tip of ...

Deprived of nutrients from the levee system along the Mississippi River ... aims to bolster an ailing ecosystem and strengthen natural hurricane defense.

Louisiana has long relied on a vast levee system to rein in the Mississippi River and protect surrounding communities from flooding. But cutting off the natural flow of the river with man made ...