flooding

As natural disasters worsen and extreme weather grows more frequent, it’s led to more people being displaced across the planet. On this episode of Sea Change, we explore what it means to recover after disaster.

Today we are bringing you an episode from a new podcast from our friends at Colorado Public Radio. The podcast is called Parched, and it’s about how the multi-decade drought in the West is impacting the Colorado River. It’s about people who rely on the river that shaped the West—and have ideas to save it.

A long-delayed $25 million, five-year study of how to manage the Mississippi River from Cape Girardeau, Missouri, to the Gulf of Mexico was officially launched by the Army Corps of Engineers on Thursday.

The Vicksburg Post’s Anna Guizerix discusses the history of flooding in the Yazoo Backwater area, and why finding a solution is considered controversial.

People have lived along the river for millennia, the benefits competing with the risks. Modern levee systems built in response to past disasters like the Floods of 1927 or 1993 aren't designed for the newest risk: increased rainfall caused by climate change.

Widespread showers are expected through Thursday morning in Baton Rouge and parts of metro New Orleans.

To protect southeast Louisiana parishes against the Atchafalaya River backwater flooding and intense storms during hurricane season, a 446-foot floodgate opened for the first time on Bayou Chene in St. Mary Parish on Friday, with local and state officials in attendance.

Flood insurance rates across the country are about to change in a big way, and it starts on Oct. 1.Here in Louisiana that mostly means increases. Eighty…

It’s not even summer, but the storms are back with a vengeance.Starting Tuesday afternoon, South Louisiana is in store for a several-day stretch of…

With flood risk increasing and flood insurance rates likely following suit, it seems like there's got to be a better way to tackle the challenge.For…