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 ...

Tributaries are also backing up because the Mississippi is so high there is no place for the water to go. He said there is no reason to believe a levee on the Yazoo River would fail, but if it did ...

The 17-mile-long levee, an earthen barrier along the Mississippi’s eastern bank designed ... the peninsula looks like a dogtooth on the map — has been covered in 3 feet of water, Denny said.

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 ...

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 ...

High water levels for the Mississippi River in New Orleans spurred increased levee inspections from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, its New Orleans District announced Monday, Feb. 24. The river ...

A Mississippi sheriff has called for an emergency evacuation, saying that a levee on a nearby lake is soon to break. Much of the state has been experiencing severe weather starting Tuesday ...

QUINCY — Federal legislation expected to be introduced this week could significantly impact levee districts along the Upper Mississippi River. Rep. Mary Miller sponsors the Upper Mississippi ...

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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 ...