Engineers use levees, floodways, dams, and much more to control the ever restless Mississippi.
Published Mar 18, 2015
This model of the land elevation between the Mississippi, the Atchafalaya, and the Old River show the uphill fight to control river flow.
Published Jun 4, 2011
The drought of 2012 reduced traffic to one towboat at a time; groundings closed parts of the river for hours to days.
Published Aug 23, 2012
Persistent rains and saturated soils across the watershed swelled the river to its banks and occasionally onto floodplains.
Published Feb 4, 2020
Coming off of the extreme floods of 2011, the river was approaching historic lows in the summer of 2012 near Memphis and along much of its lower reaches.
Published Aug 21, 2012
A pulse of flood water from the central United States spilled into the Gulf of Mexico.
Published Mar 9, 2018
These false-color images compare conditions along the Mississippi and Yazoo Rivers around Vicksburg in June 2011, during heavy flooding, and three years earlier.
Published Jun 14, 2011
Spain's Ebro Delta has recently experienced tremendous shape-shifting.
Published Mar 13, 2018
In the past few centuries, a river in northwestern Canada stopped wandering and assumed a more direct route to the sea.
Published Sep 4, 2012
Chinese engineers changed the main channel through the delta, changing the shape of the land at the river’s mouth.
Published Jan 27, 2010
