Learn more about the Mississippi River Basin's wetlands from coastal Louisiana to the headwaters in Minnesota.

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Researchers at Louisiana State University’s Coastal Systems Ecology Lab, led by wetland scientist and professor Robert ...

The closure of the 405-foot-long Bayou Chene floodgate is the first time the three-year-old structure has been used due to ...

A permanent gate that blocks backwater flooding from affecting 30,000 people in six parishes began to be closed Monday morning ahead of expected high water on the Atchafalaya River. The closure of ...

MARY PARISH, La. — Amid the rapid erosion of ... Lake Delta remains and continues to grow and reach out into the Atchafalaya Basin,” said Alisha Renfro, a coastal scientist with the National ...

Jobie is a South Louisiana native with a passion for ... diverts water from the Mississippi into the Atchafalaya Basin to relieve pressure downstream. Current forecasts indicate the river flow ...

A majority of the court appeared skeptical of a challenge to Louisiana’s voting map ... a major tributary of the Mississippi and Atchafalaya Rivers, drew vivid descriptions from the justices ...

Tyrone Turner It's saturday morning in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana (pop ... driving west from New Orleans crosses the vast Atchafalaya Basin on an 18-mile causeway. Not that long ago, I floated ...