Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The 80th Anniversary Celebration of the Mississippi River Basin Model will give visitors a rare opportunity to see what has been ...

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 ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Scientists working on new ways to battle the erosion that threatens Louisiana's coastline have a dramatic new tool: a massive replica of the lower Mississippi River. The ...

Plans are moving forward on two major Mississippi River sediment diversion projects, considered crucial to rebuilding Louisiana’s coast. The state has started to look for an engineering and design ...

The 80th Anniversary Celebration of the Mississippi River Basin Model will give visitors a rare opportunity to see what has been described as the largest hydraulic model in the world from 2 until 6 ...