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NPR's Eric Deggans says the comedian was a show business survivor whose tireless work ethic kept her relevant long after other comics would have faded away. She died Thursday at 81.

For more than 150 years, scientists have known that levees increase flood risk on the Mississippi River. That hasn't stopped local officials from building up levees in response to more severe floods.

An American Airlines jet collided in midair with an Army Black Hawk helicopter, out on a training exercise.

There's a lot of anxiety about climate change shrinking Lake Powell, but it also means whitewater rapids upstream have re-emerged. Thrillseekers can now run them for the first time since the 1960s.

The Ohio River stretches from Pittsburgh to Mississippi, and the basin is more than 200,000 square miles.

With the Colorado River teetering on the brink of disaster, farmers who rely on its life-giving water are preparing to make significant cuts to their operations.

Video footage from the town of Joso, northeast of Tokyo, shows helicopters being used to pluck people from balconies and rooftops as muddy water rages beneath them.

Commentator Andrei Codrescu met with Amazon founder Jeff Bezos in 1995, back when the company was in its earliest days. We went to the archives to hear why Bezos was betting on the Internet to sell books.

Several parts of California face threats of flooding from rain and melting snow as an atmospheric river sweeps across the state, which has been dealing with a series of extreme weather events.

New research suggests that pharmaceutical pollution can change the behavior of salmon in the wild.