A geologist's vibrant maps reveal how the Mississippi River has wandered across its valley, making it look like a colorful, ...

The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) lifted the expanded water contact advisory for a portion of the ...

Routine tests found high bacteria levels in two places but show all other beaches across the region are safe for swimming.

In 2019, an unrelenting flood swamped more than half a million acres in the Mississippi Delta's Yazoo Backwater. It took more than six months to recede. Here & Now's Peter O'Dowd reports on a pumping ...

Climate change is having devastating effects all over the world, including on this iconic American River whose troubled ...

At a seminar with business and community leaders Wednesday, JXN Water officials also sought to gain support for a proposed ...

Mississippi River Flood: Map Shows Where Roads Could Be Closed 'For Days' Published Apr 11, 2025 at 5:52 PM EDT ... and high water levels are affecting river navigation and barge movement.

Eagle Creek in Glencoe, Kentucky, has passed its flood stage water level. The creek is at 19.88 feet, according to WaterWatch, which is 23,419 percent of the normal median level.

The Mississippi River will be monitored twice a week until the water level drops below 11 feet. Residents are urged to report any unusual conditions near the levees.

Residents in Southwest Mississippi and Southeast Louisiana should expect to see low-level airplane flights from February through April as part of efforts to map geography and aquifers. The USGS on ...

Maps show the areas impacted by storm surge, rainfall levels and more as Helene, once a major hurricane and now a tropical storm, moves inland from Florida's Gulf Coast over Georgia.

For instance, in 2012, a year of historically bad drought when barge traffic piled up due to low water levels in the Mississippi, the average streamflow at that station in September was 74,650 cfs.