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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

River beds, where flowing water meets silt, sand and gravel, are critical ecological zones. Yet how water flows in a river with a gravel bed is very different from the traditional model of a sandy ...