Using NOAA data, Stacker summarized the last 100 hurricane seasons in the Atlantic Basin. See which years and storms broke ...

New research suggests a massive asteroid impact may have caused Earth’s first great flood, releasing unimaginable amounts of water and reshaping the planet’s surface. The theory blends cosmic ...

In mid-April 1927, 98 years ago this week, another deluge of torrential rain tipped the Mississippi River basin into a historic flood that remains among the most destructive in U.S. history.

By Christmas in Nashville, the Cumberland River, a Mississippi tributary, neared its highest-ever level. By February, the White River in Arkansas, another tributary, was at flood stage.

The 1927 Great Mississippi Flood had a profound socio-political effect ... Over the years floods in Carroll County have wreaked havoc, caused historic damage, and changed our community forever.

The Mississippi River is 46.9 feet high. Twenty years prior, there'd been a great flood — the flood of 1973 ... before another bout of rains came to cause damage on a much smaller scale in ...

(Jovanny Hernandez/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) DE SOTO, WISCONSIN — At the junction of Wisconsin, Minnesota and Iowa, there's a place called Reno Bottoms, where the Mississippi River spreads out ...