


Blowing up Birds Point.
Sandbagging in Cairo, 1937 UPDATE: Excellent post on this issue by TNC Scientist Jeff Opperman. I’m interviewing a couple of people and will follow up later today (May 2).As promised, here are the best links I can find for news on the lower Mississippi...
Climate change is here now, and we caused it.
Our rivers are in for some changes, and it’s hard to see how a lot of flood return interval relationships, for example, won’t go out the window soon, especially if we continue to ignore our effect on climate. And river restoration might mean adapting and...
Flood history films.
We ignore history at our peril, especially when it comes to flooding. I recently discovered a little known documentary about the 1993 Mississippi floods, and am working on a review for this blog. In the meantime here’s a wonderful source of historical footage,...