NOAA: Larger Gulf of Mexico dead zone for summer 2024 minnpost.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from minnpost.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
After the lower Mississippi began pouring through and enlarging Neptune Pass in 2019, sediment began flowing into a sand-and-silt-starved Delta bay. Now the Army Corps of Engineers — breaking with tradition — is considering letting at least part of the river have its way.
A contentious channel formed off the Mississippi River has begun to build new land off Plaquemines Parish’s east bank, according to research published Tuesday.