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.

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 Louisiana State University's ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists working on ways to fight coastal land loss in Louisiana are using a $4 million model replica of the lower Mississippi ...

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 has been built in Baton Rouge, just ...

Chemical weathering can control how susceptible bedrock in river beds is to erosion, according to new research. In addition to explaining how climate can influence landscape erosion rates, the results ...

Michael Robinson, a doctoral student in the Graduate Program of Hydrologic Sciences, was working on his dissertation, but he needed a better tool to get the job done. The tool he was looking for was ...

A new study of the freshwater greenfin darter fish suggests river erosion can be a driver of biodiversity in tectonically inactive regions. New findings could explain biodiversity hotspots in ...

New Haven, Conn. — The gradual erosion of layers of rock by rivers flowing through the Appalachian Mountains generates biodiversity of freshwater fish species, suggests a new Yale-led study that ...

If we could rewind the tape of species evolution around the world and play it forward over hundreds of millions of years to the present day, we would see biodiversity clustering around regions of ...