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

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

Communities along the freshwater Mississippi River are facing a growing threat ... a desalination facility that could serve the greater New Orleans region." With an estimated $9 billion in annual ...

Cities from the headwaters to the mouth of the Mississippi could ... Given its position near the end of the Mississippi River, New Orleans is no stranger to the devastating impacts of extreme ...

BOOTHVILLE – Just off the Mississippi River in southeast ... Each year, it’s built around 64 miles upstream from the mouth of the river—usually far enough south to block saltwater from reaching New ...

Ritter’s theory – that decades of river manipulation has disconnected people from it – looms large near the mouth of the Mississippi. Between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, oil, gas and ...

At Vicksburg, Mississippi, north of New Orleans, the river flowed at a rate about 50% slower and at a stage height about 95% lower than normal during late September and early October between 2013 ...