Jun
14
2013
Originally posted on WWNO May 27th. View original post here.
Let’s imagine it is the Spring of 2025, and Louisiana is preparing to open three diversions on the lower Mississippi so fresh water and sediment can reach wetlands struggling to...
Jun
14
2013
Originally posted on WWNO on May 20th. View original post here.
It’s almost impossible to find anyone in coastal Louisiana opposed to the idea of “coastal restoration.” Storms like Katrina, Gustav and Isaac have shown everyone the value of the marshes and...
Jun
14
2013
Originally posted on May 17th on WWNO. View original post here.
If you’ve been listening and reading along this week, by now you know the consensus among coastal experts is that New Orleans and southeast Louisiana are headed for an early grave before...
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...
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
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...
