BOOTHVILLE – Just off the Mississippi River in southeast Louisiana, an 18-wheeler trailer filled with white cylinders whirred as workers prepared to turn the machine off for the day. The truck houses ...
The infrastructure along the Mississippi River has long protected the New Orleans area from catastrophic flooding. But a list ...
NEW ORLEANS, La. — When Hurricane Ida hit Louisiana as a Category 4 storm on Sunday, it temporarily reversed the flow of the Mississippi River. Ricky Boyette, a spokesman for the U.S. Army Corps of ...
Not Albert, his son Hans. As far as we know, Albert was right about his General Theory of Relativity and other natural laws.
GARYVILLE, La. (AP) — Louisiana has long relied on a vast levee system to rein in the Mississippi River and protect surrounding communities from flooding. But cutting off the natural flow of the river ...
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The nation's rivers continue to dry out as the burning of fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas worsens climate change.
As politicians argue over just how much land the Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion could build along a rapidly sinking coast, geologist Alex Kolker regularly makes the 65-mile drive down from New ...
Louisiana has long relied on a vast levee system to rein in the Mississippi River and protect surrounding communities from flooding. But cutting off the natural flow of the river with man made ...
Big Blue Sky member Sophia Landis plays a Native American-style flute during a music cruise Sept. 13, 2024, on the Mississippi River between Marquette, Iowa and Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin. Many of ...