Two recent stories, one on Neptune Pass in the lower Mississippi River and the other on the testing of the Bonnet Carre Spillway by the Corps of Engineers, are related and deserve mutual exploration.

As politicians argue over just how much land the Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion could build along a rapidly sinking coast, geologist Alex Kolker regularly makes the 65-mile drive down from New ...

The results of the Neptune Pass study released in July provide evidence of the actual land-building capability of river diversions. The study funded by the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority ...