New research shows that typically, less than 10% of land-building alluvium reaches the Bird’s Foot Delta region, the ...

Youth Peace Olympics will take place in Baton Rouge on May 31st, featuring fun, fitness, and community activities, including ...

For almost 100 years, levees and other human-made flood control structures have lined the banks of the river, obstructing its land-building silt, sand and clay from naturally rebuilding land along ...

Louisiana experiences coastal land loss, which is triggered by humans and natural forces. Levees and flood control structures on the Mississippi River have provided flood control and economic ...

“Wax Lake, West Bay and Bonnet Carré served as examples because they had data and measurements and maps over a number of years that ... especially with coastal Louisiana’s land loss crisis. We’re ...

MARY PARISH — Amid the rapid erosion of Louisiana’s coast, something hopeful is happening ... which would redirect the Mississippi River into the Barataria Basin to reverse land loss in coastal ...

Amid the rapid erosion of Louisiana's coast ... redirect the Mississippi River into the Barataria Basin to reverse land loss in coastal parishes. The diversion has been highly controversial ...

Reversing wetland loss Ivan Vargas-Lopez measures his hand against a PVC pipe used to measure sediment accumulation, data that helps researchers understand how Wax Lake Delta builds land. Credit: ...

Louisiana is ranked fourth in the report’s list of states with the most population at risk from severe coastal flooding in the coming 25 years, but it tops the list when it comes to the amount of land ...

is at increasing risk of severe flooding from sea level rise. (Google Maps) Since 2007, Louisiana has spent billions on coastal restoration and projects aimed at reducing the risks of land loss and ...