Model of the lower Mississippi River at the River Center at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge in October 2023. (Sabrina Canfield/ Courthouse News Service) BATON ROUGE, La. (CN) — Louisiana ...

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.

From their second-story vantage point, the governor and a fleet of scientists, politicians and philanthropists peered down at a basketball court-sized model of southeast Louisiana. In the top left ...

In a large windowless room and with the hum of a motor steadily pumping water, brightly painted sticks are dropped one at a time into the top of a model river system. Carried by the flow of water, ...

Mr. Schwartz, a climate reporter, has reported on Louisiana coastal issues since Hurricane Katrina in 2005. HOLDEN, Mass. — We were standing on the levee of the Mississippi River, about an hour west ...

Michael Robinson, a doctoral student in the Graduate Program of Hydrologic Sciences, was working on his dissertation, but he needed a better tool to get the job done. The tool he was looking for was ...

When an architect is designing a building, they build a scale model to check how their design will work as an actual physical structure. What happens, however, when engineers are designing things that ...

Variation in bedrock erodibility along a river profile gives rise to differences in vertical incision rate and influences sediment characteristics such as clast lithology, coarse sediment generation ...