NEW ORLEANS, La. — When Hurricane Ida hit Louisiana as a Category 4 storm on Sunday, it temporarily reversed the flow of the Mississippi River. Ricky Boyette, a spokesman for the U.S. Army Corps of ...

Rivers, typically flowing downhill, can surprisingly reverse course due to tides, floods, engineering, or ancient geological ...

When we think of rivers, we think of water generally flowing, in a linear fashion, from high ground to the sea. Did you know ...

New research shows that typically, less than 10% of land-building alluvium reaches the Bird’s Foot Delta region, the southernmost reach of the river, where it meets the Gulf. NEW ORLEANS, La. – ...

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 ...