Anderson Jones had something to be grateful for. He finally made it home. Five years earlier, the sandbag levee protecting ...

For more than 80 years, residents of Mississippi’s Yazoo Backwater have been banking on a pumping project to protect their ...

Contractors were supposed to be hard at work this summer building drainage along the edge of the Canisteo Mine Pit, a complex ...

An April report by a nonprofit environmental advocacy group named the Mississippi River as the most endangered in the United ...

The system was born out of the devastation left behind by Hurricane Besty, and then destroyed and redone following Hurricane Katrina.

Mississippi ... shipping channel at the river's end to reach major ports that handle 18% of U.S. waterborne commerce. For almost 100 years, levees and other human-made flood control structures ...

New research shows that typically, less than 10% of land-building alluvium reaches the Bird’s Foot Delta region, the southernmost reach of the river, where it meets the Gulf. NEW ORLEANS, La. – ...

While Hartford rafting businesses worried Hurricane Helene flood damage would wipe out their entire tourism season, most were ready to welcome back visitors to the Pigeon River at the start of the ...

These are the questions posed by two strikingly congruent new books: “In Praise of Floods: The Untamed River and the Life It Brings,” by the late political scientist and anthropologist James C.

High water on the Mississippi River. An increasing rate of flooding has been killing trees and aiding the spread of invasive grasses in the Mississippi Valley. Ashleigh Coleman So when in early ...

33,723 people played the daily Crossword recently. Can you solve it faster than others?33,723 people played the daily Crossword recently. Can you solve it faster than others?