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 ...

"These hydrologic oddities illustrate how much we have still to learn about Earth's dynamic surface," researchers said in a ...

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 ...

Google Maps now shows parking difficulty, gas savings, and arrival time in the route overview window itself. It saves you the time and effort you'd otherwise spend digging through the app for ...

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 ...

Validus Energy, Denver, an Elliott Investment Management portfolio company, has agreed to acquire the Anadarko basin business of 89 Energy, Oklahoma City, in a transaction valued at $850 million.