Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE PHOTO: A view from the top of the levee that protects the Ninth Ward from the Industrial Canal is pictured as Tropical Storm ...

Ongoing sea-level rise and the rampant erosion of wetlands in southern Louisiana will swallow up the New Orleans area within ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - A Severe Weather Center 13 Investigation found many levees across the Mid-South are unregulated, un-mapped, and you may not even know if one protects your home. In February 2025, a ...

Severe weather strikes: Multiple parishes in southeast Louisiana report damage, flooding risks, and power outages as heavy rain and winds continue through the weekend. Climate warning issued: A new ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

Washington families are reckoning with the lasting devastation of the floods. Help has come mostly from luck and charity, ...

Almost half of the country lives near a levee, and 12 have already failed during spring flooding Critics blame Army Corps of Engineers and FEMA for broken levees flooding the Midwest The levees "were ...

Last week, we reviewed Benh Zeitlin’s Beasts of the Southern Wild, a sprawling, imaginative ecological fable about embattled people living in the fast-disappearing Louisiana wetlands. In a mostly ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - Three vehicles are submerged on Dillard Road west of Highway 99 in south Sacramento County in Wilton, Calif., on Jan. 1, ...