BAYOU PIGEON, LA (Louisiana First) — The Atchafalaya Basin puts millions of Louisiana residents at risk of losing everything when it floods, due in part to the constant buildup of sediment. The ...

But the study also contains potential good news: There may be enough sediment in the river to rebuild coastal land, disputing earlier estimates. The peer-reviewed study was published Monday in the ...

Fed by dozens of streams in the Sierra Nevada, 37 trillion gallons of water slosh over Lake Tahoe's silty floor. Over millions of years, sediment has emptied into the lake, filling its bottom. The ...

The federal and state trustees holding the purse strings for an unprecedented diversion project to help rebuild Louisiana's disappearing coast released a report Wednesday signaling they are likely to ...

A new study of the dramatic loss of wetlands in the Barataria Basin south of New Orleans during the last 130 years concludes that the two main causes have been construction of levees along the ...