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

These are the emerging challenges Louisiana and the nation are struggling to content with on the lower Mississippi River.

A first-of-its-kind project seeking to restore river ecosystems along 39 miles of the Lower Mississippi River has federal approval to move forward — if it can secure a slice of the federal bankroll.

Model of the lower Mississippi River at the River Center at Louisiana State University ... Authority is in the midst of developing simultaneous sediment diversion and marsh rebuilding projects, in a ...

A prolonged flood event is beginning to unfold along the lower Mississippi River, a consequence of the widespread heavy rainfall that drenched the river basin in early April. Experts predict the ...

Multiple days of heavy rain this week across the upper basin of the Mississippi River and lighter rain over the Ohio River Valley will cause the central and lower Mississippi River to rise “a ...

The Middle Mississippi runs from where the Missouri River meets downstream to where the Ohio River meets at the Kentucky, Illinois and Missouri border. The Lower Mississippi flows from the Ohio ...

According to Rivergator, a website that promotes recreational use of the Lower Mississippi River, the deepest spot is off Algier's Point across from Jackson Square in New Orleans where it drops to ...