A dead zone -- already the size of the state of New Jersey -- is growing in the ...

STORY HIGHLIGHTS Animals are on the move in flooded areas Officials are particularly worried about Atchafalaya Basin in Louisiana They tell residents not to feed, touch or impede animals (CNN) -- Please don't feed the animals. Or touch them. Or do an...

SIMMESPORT, La. — A farming community built for evacuees of Hurricane Katrina has become a haven for families driven from their homes by river flooding...

NEWTON, Man. — In the Manitoba flood zone, all they can do is wait. They've moved their belongings from the basement to the main floor. They've protected their homes the best they can. Along road after road southeast of the cut in the dike at Hoop a...

Twenty-five thousand people to lose their homes as small towns and farmland are put under water to save citiesThe flooding on the Mississippi has been a season of cruel choices. Big cities – such as Baton Rouge and New Orleans – stay dry. Small to...

Canadian soldiers re-enforce a soft spot in the dike along the Assiniboine River on May 15 in Poplar Point, Manitoba. Ryan Remiorz/THE CANADIAN PRESS WINNIPEG—The weather is co-operating with flood-fighting efforts in Manitoba. Dry, sunny weather ...

Share this PARIS (Reuters) - France has imposed limits on water consumption in 28 of its 96 administrative departments, the environment ministry said on Monday amid signs a prolonged dry spell that has hit grain crops would continue. "We are al...

A lingering drought in central China's Hubei Province has rendered 1,392 reservoirs virtually useless as only dead water remains in them, said the local water authority Monday. Known as the "land of a thousand lakes," Hubei is suffering from a drought...

STORY HIGHLIGHTS Obama's Memphis visit is his second trip to a southern natural disaster site in 17 days The Army Corps of Engineers continues to open floodgates The intent is to save Baton Rouge and New Orleans from severe flooding Open Morganza spil...

YAZOO CITY, Miss. - At the far end of this sleepy town with Magnolia-lined streets, Hines Grocery has served up heaping plates of smoked pork...

By Michael Kunzelman KROTZ SPRINGS, La. (AP) -- Deputies warned people Sunday to get out as Mississippi River water gushing from a floodgate for the...

Opening of floodgate should also spare Louisiana's capital but leaves farms, oil refinery and wildlife refuge in path of delugeUS army engineers have opened a key floodgate to allow the swollen Mississippi river to flood thousands of homes and crops bu...

Share this By Rod Nickel WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - Manitoba opened its dike on the swollen Assiniboine River on Saturday, starting a slow creep of water across rich farmland to avert a potentially catastrophic, unplanned breach in the Cana...

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (AFP) – US authorities were preparing Saturday to open up a major floodgate to ease pressure from the swollen Mississippi River hoping to save urban centers from historic flooding as rising waters swept south. Louisiana's Morg...

LAKE PROVIDENCE, La. (AP) -- In an agonizing trade-off, Army engineers said they will open a key spillway along the bulging Mississippi River as early...

STORY HIGHLIGHTS Mississippi River floodwaters crest at higher than 56 feet in Helena, Arkansas The town's crest is higher than previous highpoint of 48.3 feet in Tiptonville, Tennessee Louisiana officials urge residents to evacuate Tennessee man lose...

Christine Cleaver and other workers arrange sandbags as they try to protect a home southeast of Portage la Prairie, Man., on Tuesday, May 10, 2011. The province plans to break its dikes on the flooded Assiniboine River, swamping a large swath of farml...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. – The Mississippi River crested in Memphis at nearly 48 feet on Tuesday, falling inches short of its all-time record but still soaking low-lying areas with enough water to require a massive cleanup. National Weather Service meteorolog...

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 ...

WINNIPEG — Most Manitoba fields are still too wet for planting — if they're not covered in water — and that's got grain growers worrying. Farmers who toil along Red River are becoming used to flooding, and their land usually drains on time to ge...

STORY HIGHLIGHTS The Mississippi River spilled out onto huge swaths of the South and Midwest Flooding has reached thousands of acres of farmland The breach of a levee on the Mississippi helped to ease flood pressure (CNN) -- An engorged Mississippi R...

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...

Flood Season 2011 by Tom Robertson, Minnesota Public Radio April 13, 2011 LISTEN Copy and paste the HTML below to embed this audio onto your web page.Audio player code: <iframe title="minnesota_news_features_2011_04_13_osloflooding_20110413_64s_p...

Bad federal policy and intensifying storms are washing away the rich dark soils in the Midwest that made this country an agricultural powerhouse and that remain the essential foundation of a healthy and sustainable food system in the future.

Should farmers in the Central Valley, California's richest agricultural region, be required to monitor and clean up groundwater pollution from their operations? The issue will be taken up by the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board at a three-day...

In 30 years the lake's depth has dropped from five metres to only oneFence posts mark what was once the edge of Lake Koroneia, now several metres from the shore. Greece's fourth-largest lake, near Thessaloniki, used to extend over 45 sq km. In 30 years...