River floods are becoming more likely globally because of climate change, but not in the waterway’s downstream sections where more people live. That’s according to a new study coauthored by a ...

Two recent stories, one on Neptune Pass in the lower Mississippi River and the other on the testing of the Bonnet Carre Spillway by the Corps of Engineers, are related and deserve mutual exploration.

A new study has mapped 35 years of river changes on a global scale. The work has revealed significant effects on both downstream (44% decrease in water flow) and upstream (17% flow increase) rivers, ...

As we all watched news video of Rapidan Dam being rendered inoperable by recent torrential rains, we were left wondering: “So what should we do now?” Much of the news has focused on the spectacle of ...

This spring, endangered pallid sturgeon wasted no time swimming up the newly opened bypass channel around Intake Diversion Dam on the lower Yellowstone River. The two-mile long channel about 17 miles ...