CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (KFVS) - A river flood warning remains in effect for Cape Girardeau. The flood warning was issued on Wednesday, July 3 as the Mississippi River began to rise into flood-level ...

Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover and Vice Chairman of the Red Cross James Fieser. Ten thousand River Commissions, with the mines of the world at their back, can not tame that lawless stream ...

For the past few decades, the trees that grow in the Mississippi River floodplain, known as floodplain forests, have been struggling. Although they're named for their ability to withstand the ...

what to do about the loss of the river's natural floodplain. Originally, the waters of the Mississippi spread over many thousand square miles of lowlands. Unlike cultivated farmland, wetlands ...