The flood on Monday was at least the fifth affecting several New Orleans neighborhoods since December 2023, and it was unlike ...

Wetlands across the Mississippi River basin, vital for hundreds of bird ... would negotiate easements with landowners and then remove drainage tiles, ditches and dams to restore the natural ...

It explores how recent legal and policy changes affect wetlands across the Mississippi River basin, what that means ... with landowners and then remove drainage tiles, ditches and dams to restore ...

As storms begin to move out of the Cumberland River Basin in Tennessee and Kentucky ... at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. They are currently increasing releases to conserve ...

Researchers at Louisiana State University’s Coastal Systems Ecology Lab, led by wetland scientist and professor Robert ...

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 ... and poor drainage typical of ...

Many wetlands are disappearing, but Louisiana’s “accidental” Wax Lake Delta is growing—and informing coastal restoration ...

The diversion project would funnel up to 75,000 cubic feet per second of water and sediment from the Mississippi River into the Barataria Basin to rebuild lost wetlands. It was projected to build ...

A new drainage law was adopted in 1869 ... In 1927, a major flood occurred, the same year as the Mississippi River overflowed its banks. “Guess who they want to fix this monumental problem?