Devastating, life-threatening floods have already started in some states as an atmospheric river causes heavy rainfall.

A map from the USGS showed that some rivers were 23,000 percent of their normal median level or higher as of Friday morning.

The seven states on the Colorado River are spending millions of dollars ... reliable public information,” said Matt Ely, director of the US Geological Survey’s Colorado Water Science Center ...

From above, parts of the Everglades look like the map of a planet as seen from space, continents of sawgrass polkadotting an endless ocean. In fact, it’s a slow-moving shallow river, nicknamed the ...