The Mississippi River is second from the left. Photograph from David Rumsey Map Collection The chart is from 1829, and it's a beautiful example of the comparative charts that became popular in the ...

The Mississippi River Delta is more than a place on the map—it’s a living bridge between continents, a nursery for life, and a shield for communities. Its loss would echo far beyond Louisiana ...

Figure 1: Land change in the Mississippi River delta from 1932 to 2010 ... The DEM value for each site was determined by overlaying the DEM map with sample locations in QGIS Version 2.18.3 ...

The state of Louisiana is proceeding with ambitious plans to redirect the Mississippi River ... dams along the length of the river, but much still reaches the delta. The problem is that factors ...

profiles around the Mississippi River Birdsfoot Delta (1 June 2011). Couvillion, B. R. et al. US Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Map 3164, scale 1:265,000, 12 p. pamphlet (2011).

But there’s another key factor involved in determining a given delta’s risks — a society’s wealth, which translates into its ability to protect itself. Thus, while the Mississippi River is ...