Torrential rainfall through Sunday night triggered widespread, life-threatening and catastrophic flash flooding centered on the mid-Mississippi and Ohio valleys. In the next few weeks, runoff from the ...

What may seem like an easy question to answer — "Why do rivers split?" — has actually stumped scientists for well over a century. It's the kind of thing we take for granted, after all, it seems to ...

Heavy rains this week and additional rainfall from Helene will cause major flooding on the New river and moderate river flooding along the Yadkin river. Please make sure you New River at ...

Scientists evaluated nine major European rivers, including the Thames and Tiber, and found microplastics in all of them, according to Phys.org. On average, the team found three microplastics per ...

Improvements to Boston’s three major rivers are slowing or stalled, and climate change is a major culprit. The assessment, from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's annual report card, ...

TAMPA, Fla. — After Hurricane Milton dumped more than a foot of rain on parts of the Tampa Bay area, local rivers are seeing historic levels of flooding. In the days following the storm, flood ...

A sequence of atmospheric rivers will bring heavy rainfall and snow to the Western U.S. and Canada over the next week. By Judson Jones Judson Jones is a meteorologist and reporter for The Times. The ...