In this aerial photo, a cargo ship plies up the Mississippi River towards New Orleans in Plaquemines Parish, La., Tuesday, March 31, 2015. LSU and Tulane University are receiving a $22 million award from the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine to lead a consortium seeking ways to save the ecologically fragile Lower Mississippi River Delta, the universities announced Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana State University and Tulane University are receiving a $22 million award from the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine to lead a consortium seeking ways to save the ecologically fragile Lower Mississippi River Delta, the schools announced Wednesday.
