Mississippi River Basin Model (1969) from Ron Rodenmeyer on Vimeo. The 80th Anniversary Celebration of the Mississippi River Basin Model will give visitors a rare opportunity to see what has been ...

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.

For centuries, the sandbars in the Cedar River drifted and flowed with the river current. Then, in the late 1800s, William King thought about how useful that sand would be in making plaster and cement ...

By Carolyn Cowan Rampant sand mining in the Mekong River is directly weakening critical seasonal river flows that sustain Southeast Asia’s largest freshwater lake, new research indicates. The Mekong’s ...

Sand is the most mined resource worldwide, yet not many are aware of the global environmental crisis stemming from over-extraction. River sand is the main ingredient of concrete — a core resource in ...

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 ...

Jefferson Parish Councilman Ricky Templet and President John Young pounded an American flag into the sand at a lonely spot about five miles southwest of the town of Jean Lafitte on Friday (May 15), ...

It's a resource used in global construction and mined from rivers and coasts across the world. Now new research has shown sand mining is causing river beds to lower, leading to riverbank instability ...

Vijayawada: A stretch of Krishna river at Yanamalakuduru on city outskirts has become a death trap. Altogether, 11 students died at this particular place within last one year. Illegal sand mining is ...

In the past, there was a lot of sand by the Han River, and people swam in the water. “The Han River 1968,” a book by Kim Won at the Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology, ...

Mr. Schwartz, a climate reporter, has reported on Louisiana coastal issues since Hurricane Katrina in 2005. HOLDEN, Mass. — We were standing on the levee of the Mississippi River, about an hour west ...