WASHINGTON — At high tide every day, the southern portion of the Tidal Basin looks like a neglected beach. Stumps, sticks and other debris litter the landscape. An entire walking path has disappeared ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Mike Litterst, National Mall and Memorial Parks communications chief, explains why the Tidal Basin was constructed and how it functions. Every spring ...

Faced with a crumbling sea wall and daily flooding, the National Mall’s Tidal Basin finds itself in an increasingly dire state of disrepair, with its famous cherry trees submerged in 3 feet of water ...

To kick off the project, roughly 140 cherry trees between the Thomas Jefferson Memorial and the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial will be removed later this spring. A project to protect some of the ...

If you walk around the Tidal Basin regularly, you probably have noticed flooded pathways, especially on the west side and near the Thomas Jefferson Memorial. The National Park Service is looking to ...

As work continues on the restoration of the seawalls along D.C’s Tidal Basin, 140 cherry trees between the Jefferson and Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorials have been axed. Some D.C. locals feared ...

The National Park Service is seeking public comment on a $100 million project that would restore portions of the sea wall along the Tidal Basin and West Potomac Park in D.C. Area of proposed work.

WASHINGTON — Editor's Note: This video is from April 2021, centered around Earth Day coverage about the threat D.C. cherry blossoms face due to flooding at the Tidal Basin. Plans for the first phase ...

Visiting the famed cherry trees surrounding the Tidal Basin in Washington, D.C., is worthy of anyone’s bucket list — and it doesn’t get better than visiting during peak bloom. And peak bloom is here!

The Tidal Basin’s beloved cherry blossoms are drowning. Twice a day at high tide, brackish water from the Potomac River floods the banks, plunging the walkway and the roots of its 3,800 cherry trees ...

A hungry beaver or perhaps multiple beavers have damaged at least 15 cherry trees at the Washington Tidal Basin near the Jefferson Memorial. Most of the damage is minor but two trees were girdled, ...

WASHINGTON (7News) — The circle of life for the beloved Yoshino cherry trees is on full display along the Tidal Basin in Southwest D.C., if you know where to look. This year, visitors to the National ...