News from IFGR and the rivers of the world

The Army Corps of Engineers  has just obtained funding from the American Congress of more than $160 million for infrastructure projects in Louisiana in the framework of its Work Plan 2020. $85 million are devoted to increasing the depth of the navigable channel of the Mississippi to 15 metres (about 2 metres deeper than today) in its […]

Dan Coe, a cartographer for the Washington Geological Survey, has an obsession, that of exploring the aesthetic dimension of science, nature and geography. He recently performed the task of comparing old maps of the Mississippi delta, dating from the 1940s, and aerial laser data obtained using Lidar technology. The result is striking. The memory of […]

On 29 June, the leaders of Canada, Mexico and the United States announced the launching of the North American Clean Energy Plan.