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 ...

Heat-fueled exceptional drought, which is the highest level defined by the US Drought Monitor, is in place across nearly one-fifth of the lower Mississippi River region – the second-largest area ...

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 ...

In the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley – the historic floodplain of the lower river – a 2020 study estimated that about 30% of today’s land cover is forest. It used to be continuous across ...

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 surge was just now working slowly downstream along the Mississippi River ... Rivers such as the Red River of the South, the Arkansas, and the lower portion of the Missouri may experience ...

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 ...