NEW ORLEANS - Louisiana’s coastal wetlands make up about 40% of all coastal marshes in the United States but according to ...

Mark Shirley, a Louisiana Sea Grant and LSU AgCenter marine extension agent, retired in March after 41 years of service. He ...

A fight is brewing over the road link needed to connect Port of New Orleans' controversial Louisiana International Terminal ...

A flow of sediment from a decades-old river diversion has accidentally given birth to new wetlands. While that small delta is dwarfed by what’s washing away all around it, researchers have gained ...

Like the tail of a snake, the river would frequently whip back and forth, changing its position and forming new deltas across the coast roughly every millennium. These natural cycles created the ...

But wetland protections have never been simple ... founding director of the Tulane Institute on Water Resources Law and Policy in New Orleans. “I think you're almost guaranteed to have more ...

assistant director of the Tulane Institute on Water Resources Law and Policy in New Orleans. More: As Lake Superior wetlands become more vulnerable, tribe fears cultural guideposts could slip ...

The states that border the Mississippi River have lost at least half of the wetlands they once had, including Wisconsin.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has put a halt to the project's permit, saying the state "deliberately withheld" crucial ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Federal authorities are seeking to contain and clean up the damage from a decades-old oil well in ...

founding director of the Tulane Institute on Water Resources Law and Policy in New Orleans. Even the state laws are moving targets. Illinois is aiming to beef up its wetland protections ...

As Louisiana continues to confront the escalating effects of coastal erosion, saltwater intrusion, and extreme weather events ...