The Grand Bay National Wildlife Refuge is a beautiful sprawling wetland of protected land that offers up great hiking and ...

Lawsuits have stalled the Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion effort, so officials have threatened to pull funding.

In this guest column, New Orleans native Randy Fertel argues that the controversial Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion finally ...

This narrow strip along the Nile, together with the delta at the river's northern ... some of the land along the Mississippi to revert to its former wetland state. But even with these enlightened ...

The restoration funding for the Barataria Basin — approximately 1.5 million acres of wetlands southwest of New Orleans ... campaign director for Restore the Mississippi River Delta. “It may seem very, ...

The delta is the baby and mama is the river ... such closures may disrupt nutrient-rich flows beneficial to wetlands. When the Mississippi is flowing normally, Neptune Pass has grown to ...

The way we control the Mississippi River has serious implications ... really the far reaches of the delta. But 5,000 years ago, the place where I was on the ground touring these levees with ...

Mallards wearing backpacks are at the heart of a research project that is expected to gather data that duck hunters can use ...

Flood levees along the Mississippi ... to drain the wetlands and use the land for commerce – that is the system – but we no longer have a mindset that envisions that future. “My question is, is there ...

The city has grown quite a bit since Hurricane Katrina pushed many people to move farther up the Mississippi River ... to delve into the heart of these wetlands. If you enjoy hiking but hate ...

Left open, the canals brought saltwater deep into the wetlands, killing marsh grasses ... the bird’s foot delta of the Mississippi River and the surrounding marshlands of Plaquemines Parish ...

The feds threaten to withhold $2.2 billion from the massive effort to save and restore the state’s diminishing coastline if ...