A natural diversion of the Mississippi River is creating new land in Louisiana, offering insights into coastal restoration ...

Louisiana on Thursday canceled a $3 billion repair of disappearing Gulf coastline, funded by the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil ...

You’ve likely heard the phrase the Muddy Mississippi, and it is accurate. The water is brown from bank to bank, at least as far as we went. It flows at a steady 5 or 6 miles per hour this time of year ...

Murky, sediment-rich Mississippi River water mixes with fresh saltwater in the Gulf of Mexico. Nutrient runoff from 41% of the United States flows down the Mississippi, creating a “dead zone.” ...

The growing Wax Lake Delta provided data for the now-stalled Mid-Barataria sediment diversion, which is designed to rebuild wetlands in nine parishes along the Louisiana Gulf Coast.

Louisiana has long relied on a vast levee system to rein in the Mississippi River and protect surrounding communities from flooding. But cutting off the natural flow of the river with man made ...

The Maurepas Swamp river reintroduction project is seen prior to a groundbreaking ceremony in Garyville, Louisiana, on Dec. 3. The project is intended to replenish the forested wetland by ...

This summer’s “dead zone,” a low-oxygen area where the river empties into the sea, could span 5,827 square miles across the Gulf of Mexico. Louisiana has the power to call for change.

CYPREMORT POINT, La. — Thomas Olander has watched his shrimp catch shrink over the last 15 years. It’s not just the abundance of Louisiana shrimp; Olander said the average size of the ...

Intense floods in the upper Mississippi River basin may hold a silver lining for communities in the Arkansas Delta and Louisiana hit by drought, according to an association of local governments ...

As climate change compounds the threats of water scarcity, extreme weather and wildfires on California’s resources, World ...