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

New research shows that typically, less than 10% of land-building alluvium reaches the Bird’s Foot Delta region, the ...

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

FEMA cuts could worsen Mississippi River flooding and harm the ecosystem. Shifting disaster recovery costs to states may be untenable due to their financial situations. Unregulated development in ...

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

New research shows that typically, less than 10% of land-building alluvium reaches the Bird’s Foot Delta region, the ...

It’s now been a week since the devastating May 16 tornado cut a path of destruction from Clayton to North City, a major question is emerging — how does FEMA approve funding, and how long will it take?

The Mississippi River feeds the Atchafalaya River ... Those levels once posed a serious concern for Terrebonne Parish, flooding areas like Gibson in 2011 and 2016, Terrebonne Parish Levee Director ...

Major flooding is expected on the Mississippi River at New Orleans ... Major openings of the river in 2011 and 2019 resulted in federal disaster declarations along the Mississippi Coast.

Ten years later, Memphis and Mid-South look back at the flood of 2011 According to the NOAA’s National Water Prediction Service, the water level of the Mississippi River in Memphis at 6 p.m. was ...

The Mississippi River is a critical ... We saw 57.2 back in 2011 and that was a big one. We don't anticipate that this time. Forty-eight is a moderate flood." As the flood wave continues moving ...

The Mississippi River in the Quad-Cities has finally fell below flood stage for the first time in more than three months. It marks the end of a record-breaking stretch of ...