The U.S. Geological Survey has released a map of coastal Louisiana marshes, listing more than 956,000 acres of fresh marsh and nearly 730,000 acres of saltwater marsh.

This satellite image of the Mississippi River was taken on Sept. 19, 2015. Image: Joshua Stevens/Landsat/U.S. Geological Survey The same region as seen on Sept. 3, 2021, five days after hurricane ...

NEW ORLEANS, April 2 -- Add one more possible threat to Louisiana's rebuilding: active geologic faults that are causing levees, flood walls, bridges, homes and other structures to sink. A new ...

On a Geological Survey map of Louisiana, the coastline is a sea of red dots, each representative of oil and gas infrastructure. And that exact area, LaFleur said, is experiencing land loss like ...

As of last Thursday—the most recent update to the map—30 percent of the state suffered from exceptional drought, the most severe drought marker by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

June 15 (UPI) --Researchers at Tulane University have developed a new map that details the varying rates at which land is sinking along the Louisiana coast."The novel aspect of this study is that ...

According to the US Geological Survey, more than a football field worth of land vanishes here every 100 minutes.