Jun
14
2013
Originally posted on WWNO on May 16th. View original post here.
The clang of tide gauges throughout parts of southeast Louisiana aren’t from a science fiction movie, though they may make residents feel like they’re caught in one.
Those sounds tell the...
Jun
14
2013
Originally posted on WWNO on May 15th. View original post here.
These days when fishing guide Ryan Lambert motors away from the boat launch in Buras, he’s fishing in the what locals call “the land of used-to-bes.”
As in, that used to be Yellow...
Jun
14
2013
Originally posted on WWNO on May 14th. View original post here.
Anyone flying into New Orleans on a clear day now looks down on a panorama of delicate marsh floating like green lace on the brown waters of the Mississippi delta....
Jun
14
2013
Originally posted on May 9th on WWNO. View original post here.
If you enter New Orleans in a Google search you’ll get words and images that echo the city’s unofficial motto: laissez les bon temps rouler, let the good times roll.
Americans love to...
Jun
10
2013
Originally published in The Nation on Sunday, June 09, 2013, 02:40 PM. View original article here.
How to Save a Sinking City: Innovative land management in New Orleans could replenish wetlands and limit flood damage. LEE CELANO/REUTERS Houses surrounded by...
May
15
2013
Originally posted on May 14th, 2013. View the original post here.
Consider this: It’s spring 2025 and Louisiana officials are preparing to open three diversions on the lower Mississippi River so fresh water and sediment can reach wetlands struggling to stay...
May
13
2013
Rising sea levels threaten communities on every American coastline, but none more so than Louisiana’s Gulf Coast, where every hour a football field’s worth of marsh disappears.
On Monday May 13, WWNO — New Orleans Public Radio, will begin a series...
May
01
2013
Originally posted on April 30th, 2013. View the original post here.
A minnow considered the canary in Louisiana’s coastal ecosystem can’t shake the hydrocarbon cough it picked up when BPs oil started washing ashore three years ago.
Recent studies on new generations of...
May
01
2013
Originally posted on April 24th, 2013. View the original post here.
A Louisiana native who was raised in Independence, Petrolia said the idea for the survey came to him after seeing a growing number of “America’s Wetland” bumper stickers. They’re circulated...
May
01
2013
Originally posted on April 10th, 2013. View the original post here.
For decades, those leading the life-and-death struggle to keep southeast Louisiana from being swallowed by the Gulf of Mexico have had a battle cry: “Put the river back into the...
