This image shows the rainfall return period due ... The surge was just now working slowly downstream along the Mississippi River below the Ohio River confluence. Many locations from the shores ...

These are the emerging challenges Louisiana and the nation are struggling to content with on the lower Mississippi River.

North of New Roads and Morganza, a roughly 60-year-old collection of dams, channels, locks and guide levees has kept the Mississippi River from jumping its course and taking the steeper ...

Runoff from that rain is just now surging through the lowest portion of the Mississippi River and is leading to moderate to high flood levels in some areas, including Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

The Mississippi River at Moonwalk Park in New Orleans is around 18 feet lower than normal, exposing rocks that haven’t been seen in a long time. River pilots say it’s a problem. “Right now ...

Water lines on the Hernando DeSoto Bridge, which crosses the Mississippi River in Memphis.Credit...Lucy Garrett for The New York Times On the Lower Mississippi — the portion that flows south ...

Historic drought in the west and water diversion for human use are causing stretches of the Colorado and Mississippi Rivers to run dry. The Colorado River's declining flows can be seen at Lake ...

A stunning high-resolution satellite image of the Mississippi River that was taken over a period of about three weeks has been posted online by the European Space Agency (ESA). The roughly 2,300 ...

The consequences of four days of torrential rain over the middle of the nation continue this week as the surge of water that began from the Ozark Mountains to the Tennessee and Ohio River basins ...