HELENA, Mont. -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers did what it could with the record flooding on the Missouri River this year although proposed changes... Read more: Natural Disasters, Missouri ...

The governor of flood-plagued Montana ordered more National Guard troops to join the anti-flood effort, while states downstream along the bloated Missouri River strengthened levees and laid sandbags ahead of the release of waters from dams and reservo...

Published: Monday, May 16, 2011 - 11:32 in Earth & Climate The majority of seaports around the world are unprepared for the potentially damaging impacts of climate change in the coming century, according to a new Stanford University study. In a s...

by Brad Johnson. Cross-posted from the Wonk Room. “Flooding along the Mississippi River has set a new water level record,” according to the National Weather Service. “The massive flood churning its way down the Mississippi...

By Vickie Frantz, AccuWeather.com Staff Writer May 14, 2011; 10:11 AM ET Workers help build a temporary levee in Krotz Springs, La., Friday, May 13, 2011, in advance of possible flooding if the Morganza Spillway north of Baton Rouge is opened. Wo...

The Mississippi River continues to rise to heights never seen before along its course through the states of Mississippi and Louisiana. At Natchez, Mississippi, the river has already hit 59 feet, breaking the previous all-time record of 58 feet set in t...

Listen to the AudioCrews filled sandbags and shored up levees along the Mississippi River as enormous volumes of water surged south. Jeffrey Brown takes a closer look at the levee and floodgate system with the Association of State Floodplain Managers' ...

"April was a month of historic climate extremes across much of the United States, including: record breaking precipitation that resulted in historic flooding; recurrent violent weather systems that broke records for tornado and severe weather outbreaks...

Low-lying areas of Memphis, Tenn., have been flooded by the rising Mississippi River, forcing evacuations, but engineers said ...

The Washington Post has a story today, Floods along the Mississippi River lead to renewed calls for a change in strategy, detailing the various ways that governments are coping with increased flooding. But the discussion shouldn't just be limited to te...

The Mighty Mississippi continues to wreak havoc as the river's highest flood crest in history pushes southwards near Memphis, Tennessee today. The river crested at its highest height on record over the past four days along a 70-mile stretch from New Ma...

The Ohio River at Cairo, Illinois continues to fall today, with a level of 59.3', 2.5' below the all-time peak of 61.8' set on Monday night. On Monday night, the Army Corps of Engineers was forced to intentionally destroy a levee at Birds Point on the ...

By Kristina Pydynowski, Senior Meteorologist May 4, 2011; 7:18 AM ET Part of the 130,000 acres of farmland flooded by an intentional break in the Birds Point levee is seen on Tuesday in Mississippi Co., Mo. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson) Residents alon...

ST. LOUIS (Reuters) – Missouri's attorney general asked the Supreme Court on Sunday to intervene and block a proposed federal plan to protect the southern Illinois town of Cairo by blowing up a levee on the Mississippi River. State Attorney General ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) – A U.S. government agency moved a step closer on Saturday to blowing up a Mississippi River levee to control flooding after a court decision cleared the way for it to proceed. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers officials said they dispa...

A stunning tornado outbreak of incredible violence has left at least 202 dead across the Eastern U.S.; injuries probably number over a thousand, with 600 injured in the town of Tuscaloosa alone. The tornadoes carved huge swaths of damage, completely fl...

The nation's unprecedented April tornado-fest continued full force last night, with NOAA's Storm Prediction Center logging 57 tornado reports, 295 cases of damaging thunderstorm winds, and 254 reports of large hail. The 2-day tornado count from this la...

GRAND FORKS, North Dakota (Reuters) – Residents of Oslo, Minnesota on Wednesday walked levees and waited out massive flooding that has turned their community into a tiny temporary island in the Red River for a third year in a row, Mayor Scott Kosmat...

GRAND FORKS, North Dakota (Reuters) – The Red River was spreading out in a record swath across broad stretches of rural North Dakota and Minnesota on Tuesday and swelling toward a near-record crest in Grand Forks expected within three days. The Red ...

By Jacques Hallé, World Weather Post In the southern part of South Padre Island Texas, there is too much sand at the bottom of the Brownsville channel entrance. At the same ...