About half of the sprawling marshland in the lower Mississippi River ... Delta National Wildlife Refuge, which are a combined 165,000 acres. Scientists have estimated the scale has damaged about ...

The Mississippi River Delta sprawls across southeastern Louisiana, forming a complex mosaic of wetlands, bayous, and barrier islands. This sprawling landscape is built from centuries of sediment ...

Figure 1: Geologic map of the Mississippi River ... In each case, after river diversion, the abandoned delta was subject to subsidence, reworking of mouth-bar sands into transgressive barrier ...

The Mississippi River's ... revealed that 80 percent of the river's sediment no longer reaches the delta, accelerating erosion. This Landsat satellite image from October 3, 2011, shows the Bird's ...

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Research from scientists at Indiana University and Louisiana State University reveals new information about the role humans have played in large-scale land loss in the ...

To conduct their study, researchers re-created the land loss for an area in the Mississippi River Delta called the Barataria Basin. They used a model that describes the sediment budget, which is ...