Louisiana has lost about 2,000 square miles of coastline in the last 80 years according to estimates — an area about the size of Delaware. Coastal erosion and seawater damage have a lot to do with it.

The alternative text for this image may have been generated using AI. Bearing in mind that: Cairo is actually 1,600 km downstream of Gavins Point Dam, and addition of sand from the floodplain as a ...

The Mississippi River meanders through the continental United States for 2,320 miles before emptying into the Gulf of Mexico in Louisiana. This vastness is hard to envision–until you see a new model ...

The Mississippi River carries enough sand downstream to keep Louisiana's sinking marshes afloat for the next 600 years, according to a new study published in Nature. This means that a plan to rebuild ...

(Phys.org) —A pair of researchers has found, via sand sampling data, that the common perception that too little sand is being carried down the Mississippi River to replenish depleted loads is ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. For centuries, the sandbars in the Cedar River drifted and flowed with the river current. Then, in the ...

Historic low flows turned the Mississippi River into a construction area in 2023, as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dredged huge quantities of sand to keep the channel open for barge traffic.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The 80th Anniversary Celebration of the Mississippi River Basin Model will give visitors a rare opportunity to see what has been ...