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 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 ...

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 the Mississippi River delta is losing land at about five to seven times faster than the average prehistoric rates of land building, according to the study. To understand how the Mississippi ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Maybe the Mississippi river delta isn’t doomed after all. Upstream dams on the rivers that run through the delta were thought to be starving it of the sediment it needs to stay above sea level ...