The Bird’s Foot Delta, a famous expanse of wetlands and navigation channels off the Louisiana coast, is an important transportation hub, moving fossil fuels and agricultural products to a global ...

The Bird's Foot Delta is a critical hub for biodiversity, supporting migratory birds, fish and other wildlife. It also sustains thousands of people who depend on its resources for fishing, ...

The bird's foot delta in 2015. Photo provided by Weeks Marine Inc./Patrick M. Quigley -- Sean Duffy, executive director of the Big River Coalition.

New research shows that typically, less than 10% of land-building alluvium reaches the Bird’s Foot Delta region, the southernmost reach of the river, where it meets the Gulf.

That means the Bird's Foot Delta is headed toward further degradation, after losing ground for decades, said Mead Allison, co-lead of MissDelta and a professor in Tulane's Department of River ...

From measurements at a standard 10-meter countour line for comparison, they write in Marine Geology, their calculations show these changes throughout the so-called “Bird’s Foot Delta,” where ...

As much of America soon learned after the BP oil spill, the bird’s foot delta of the Mississippi River and the surrounding marshlands of Plaquemines Parish nurture the foodstuffs that grace the ...

A delta's coastline can be relatively smooth, with most sand depositing from the main river, or it can fan out in the shape of a bird's foot, as the river bifurcates into tributaries and channels ...

Along with human life, the Mississippi River Delta is home to an abundance of wildlife, including 400 species of birds, as well as countless other fish, mammals, amphibians, and smaller organisms ...

A major new initiative will investigate the future of Louisiana's Bird's Foot Delta, the disappearing wisps of land where the Mississippi River meets the Gulf of Mexico, holding wide-ranging ...