When Hurricane Ivan took aim at the Alabama coast in 2004, the powerful storm triggered an underwater mudslide that collapsed a Taylor Energy oil platform, setting off the longest-running oil spill in ...
Feast your eyes on this stunning map of the Lower Mississippi’s evolving floodplains, lifted from cartographer Harold Fisk’s 1944 report, Geological Investigation ...
From Other Nonprofit Media showcases select work from other nonprofit news sites around the nation. The Mississippi River is the nation’s most endangered river, a national conservation group says, ...
New research shows that typically, less than 10% of land-building alluvium reaches the Bird’s Foot Delta region, the southernmost reach of the river, where it meets the Gulf. NEW ORLEANS, La. – ...
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Thomas Jefferson imagined the waterway as the heart of his “empire of liberty” as he dispatched surveyors to measure a land already occupied by Native Americans Louisiana Purchase State Park in Holly ...
The Pearl River is expected to crest Monday as it reaches its third-highest water level after a long period of rain that has brought flooding to the Jackson, Mississippi, area, forcing road closures, ...