NASA scientists estimate that the Mississippi River annually carries about 500 million tons of sediment to the Gulf of Mexico. Locked in a straightjacket of levees, the river no longer feeds this ...

At 2,350 miles long, the Mississippi River is an aquatic superhighway and drains 40% of the continental U.S. Carried along in the vast water flow is an ever-present sidecar of sediment ...

Languages: English. The Mississippi River's Bird's Foot Delta, a vital ecological and economic region, faces rapid deterioration because of rising sea levels, sediment shortages and invasive species.

Louisiana’s ambitious plan to save and restore its coastline is stalled amid lawsuits seeking to halt the Mid-Barataria ...

After the great Mississippi River flood of 1927 occurred ... the well-studied and researched Mid-Baritaria Sediment Diversion is being questioned by nonscientists. With our governor in the ...

The Mississippi River Delta is under siege – a multi-pronged attack of sediment erosion, rising sea levels, and flooding is putting immense strain on the wetlands between the Mississippi River ...

A quick history lesson sheds light on why the 2015 passage of Minnesota’s new “buffer” law – which requires strips of vegetation along waterways to filter runoff pollution ...