Dredging meant to maintain navigational channels near the mouth of the Mississippi River has ceased until further notice, after the Army Corps of Engineers found oil from last Wednesday's spill in the ...

Mention the word “delta,” and most people will think of an airline or a cinematic fraternity house before they think of the depositional landform found at the mouth of rivers. But, really, you should ...

MORGAN CITY, La. (WAFB) - Just south of Morgan City, La. at the mouth of the Atchafalaya River, something is happening that gives scientists hope they can halt the Mississippi River Delta’s demise. By ...

Just off the trail down a silty embankment, the Sandy River sat glassy in the bright morning light. Looking north, to its confluence with the Columbia River, I raised my camera to capture the scene.

STANWOOD — On a cold May morning, Emily Howe loaded into a small motorboat to revisit her bug sample sites in the Port Susan Preserve. Small flies and other aquatic bugs are a major food source for ...

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NEW ORLEANS, La. (WVUE) -- Like giant teeth, the cutter head on the J.S. Chatry chews at the river bottom. At Head of Passes, near the mouth of the Mississippi River, one of the largest and most ...

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Some of the first complex animals lived in a shallow sea near the mouth of a river delta about 518 million years ago. The changeable environment, which was prone to violent floods, may have helped ...