January 2026 is the 10th anniversary of the 2016 Mississippi River freak winter flood. It was only the third such flood ever ...
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 ...
Fort Bend County has completed its first U.S. Army Corps of Engineers–led levee inspections, flood preparedness that officials said could save lives, protect property and reduce flood insurance costs ...
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 ...
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- If you live around the San Francisco Bay, you're probably familiar with cement sea walls and sturdy levees. But, increasingly, a nature-based design is providing an alternative ...
Dams and levees are critical pieces of our infrastructure and our history. They're one of the oldest type of human-made structures on the planet, and they were one of the first things that that ...
In the United States, tens of millions of people live behind levees, but historically disadvantaged groups are more likely to live behind subpar levees and have fewer resources to maintain critical ...
In the early 1700s, French settlers tried to control the Mississippi River by reinforcing natural levees that were created from deposited sediment. When a resident received a land grant along the ...