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

The Amite River Basin Commission recently outlined 13 major ... pump system to send high water in Spanish Lake to Mississippi River. West Shore Levee connector: $104 million, partially funded ...

Mississippi River ships and barges carry over 500 million ... the faster-moving river brings sand from throughout the drainage basin to Louisiana. But it doesn’t necessarily help to build ...

Building a large, multibillion dollar reservoir somewhere in St. Helena and East Feliciana parishes or even southern Mississippi. The Amite River Basin Commission, a Baton Rouge regional agency ...

When someone asks you what the longest river in the United States is, you might immediately think of the Mississippi River.

Once a stretch of fertile farmland, the area is now underwater. In a surprising turn of events, Tulare Lake– a natural lake that disappeared more than a century ago– has reappeared in California’s San ...

Most of the year, less than 10% of the river’s sediment reaches the critical Bird’s Foot Delta, according to scientists.

Less than 25% of Illinois farmland is owned by the farmer who works the land, with the rest leased by individuals, family trusts and, increasingly, investors looking to turn a profit.

Long before the Great Lakes came to define the heart of North America, a much larger lake once ruled the land. Lake Agassiz, a prehistoric inland sea, spread across the continent with a reach that ...