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As the state continues to lose land, advocates argue that the demise of the Mid-Barataria diversion project will leave coastal communities only more vulnerable.
The state on Thursday officially canceled the Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion, Louisiana's biggest-ever coastal restoration ...
Louisiana and Mississippi are bracing for heavy rains and potentially dangerous flooding as a tropical disturbance moves in.
Louisiana is officially canceling a $3 billion coastal restoration project funded by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill ...
Murky, sediment-rich Mississippi River water mixes with fresh saltwater in the Gulf of Mexico. Nutrient runoff from 41% of the United States flows down the Mississippi, creating a “dead zone.” ...
“People that are not from Louisiana, I think they see that landscape with the sky on fire and they think, well, he took artistic license. No sunset is like that.