NOLA.com

LSU team will map Mississippi River delta to understand mudslides, a first in 40 years

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 ...
WWNO

Mississippi River loses most of its sediment—and land building ability—before reaching the Gulf

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. – ...
Smithsonian Magazine

How the United States Laid Claim to the Mississippi River, One Mile at a Time

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 ...
KSTP-TV

Mississippi River cities join project to map plastic litter

Cities along the Mississippi River will take part in a global system to determine where plastic pollution comes from and how it ends up in waterways as a first step toward solving the problem, ...