The closure of the 405-foot-long Bayou Chene floodgate is the first time the three-year-old structure has been used due to high water in the Atchafalaya ... getting into the basin," Matte said.

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

After prolonged heavy rainfall upriver, Mississippi River nears flood stage in New Orleans. Corps begins levee checks and ...

While the science is clear – wetlands have lots of benefits and we know how to build more of them – the future is not. The ...

MARTIN PARISH — St. Martin Parish officials are taking action this week as the Atchafalaya River continues ... As of Monday, the Bayou Chêne flood control structure—an old sunken barge ...

The Mississippi River is the nation’s most endangered river, a national conservation group says, because of federal plans to ...

indeed form the heart of this country—anyone driving west from New Orleans crosses the vast Atchafalaya Basin on an 18-mile causeway. Not that long ago, I floated the bayous in a 24-foot ...