The Mississippi River Delta isn’t just another patch of American coastline—it’s a living, breathing wonderland, teeming with life and drama. Here, millions of birds pause on ...

The delta begins roughly 500 kilometers upstream of the river’s mouth, and as of 1930, covered nearly 20,000 square kilometers—an area almost the size of New Jersey.

To conduct their study, researchers re-created the land loss for an area in the Mississippi River Delta called the Barataria Basin. They used a model that describes the sediment budget, which is ...

Research from scientists at Indiana University and Louisiana State University reveals new information about the role humans have played in large-scale land loss in the Mississippi River Delta ...

LSU team will map Mississippi River delta to understand mudslides, a first in 40 years. BY ROSHAUN HIGGINS | Staff writer. Roshaun Higgins. Author email; Nov 20, 2022 Nov 20, 2022; ...

Intense floods in the upper Mississippi River basin may hold a silver lining for communities in the Arkansas Delta and Louisiana hit by drought, according to an association of local governments ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - For some tourists, this delta boat tour provides a chance to see where the Mississippi River ends as it drains one of the world’s larger watersheds. “It’s part of ...