State and federal officials should be working overtime to study numerous issues related to management of the Mississippi ...

Following months of resignations and heated debates, the New Orleans area flood protection agency met in a notably calm ...

Hurricane Katrina was a chapter in the history of man's struggle both to control nature and to accept what he cannot control.

Areas near the airport, along floodwalls, and in nearby wetlands are subsiding because of a combination of natural and ...

In San Francisco Bay, salt ponds created more than a century ago are reverting to marshland. Along the New York and New Jersey coasts, beaches ravaged by Superstorm Sandy underwent extensive ...

From Louisiana to California, U.S. coastal restoration projects aim to protect communities from rising seas, storm surges and ...

A tropical wave could develop storms in the Gulf that could track into Louisiana while another round of heat returns for the weekend ...

The United Nations currently estimates the number of dead zones at more than 500 globally, covering 250,000 square miles, with no significant coastal waters left untouched by this phenomenon. Some of ...

Amtrak’s Mardi Gras service brings train travel back to the Gulf Coast, with stops in four Mississippi beach towns along the ...

The first train on Amtrak’s Mardi Gras Service pulled into the Port City about a half-hour past its 11:18 a.m. arrival time on Monday. Of course, to a city at has been waiting for 20 years for ...