Officials are inspecting the levees daily in New Orleans metro as the Mississippi River continues to rise. Why it matters: ...

New Orleans was already vulnerable to flooding and storm surges. Scientists issue dire warning as iconic American city sinks ...

The Corps of Engineers ran a test of the Bonnet Carre Spillway on Monday in preparation for the possibility it will have to ...

The predicted flow rate of the Mississippi River is just below the threshold for a partial opening of the Bonnet Carré ...

On Monday, the Mississippi River measured just below flood stage, which is 17 feet above sea level at the Carrollton gauge in ...

Researchers say drought, sea level rise, severe storms and dredging are partly to blame for the increased in frequency and ...

Floodwaters begin to rise even faster ... of the levee walls seals New Orleans' fate. Designed to protect the city from a surge of at least 11.2 feet above sea level, the walls failed with a ...

Sea-level rise does not yet panic the Dutch ... two-mile-long barrier that protected New Orleans from a 13.6-foot storm surge last summer, when Hurricane Isaac hit. The Lower Ninth Ward ...

The Bonnet Carre Spillway has been opened more than a dozen times since it was constructed nearly 100 years ago, but the ...

and every time you have that soil or rock or whatever it is that is deposited into the seas, that forces the sea levels to rise ... from the University of New Orleans. Marcus has previously ...

The rising Mississippi River has prompted the Army Corps of Engineers and local officials to increase precautionary measures along levees from Baton Rouge to Venice, but it remains unclear if the ...