Worsening local effects on health and recreation in states like Minnesota and Wisconsin are spurring action on problems that also cause the Gulf of Mexico’s chronic “dead zone.”
Posted inFarm to Trouble
At the mouth of the Mississippi, Louisiana bears the burden of upstream runoff. Why doesn’t it push for solutions?
This summer’s “dead zone,” a low-oxygen area where the river empties into the sea, could span 5,827 square miles across the Gulf of Mexico. Louisiana has the power to call for change.
Posted inFarm to Trouble
As conservation lags, so does progress in slashing Gulf’s ‘dead zone’
One year away from a federal deadline to reduce nutrient runoff into the Gulf of Mexico by 20%, increases in tile drainage, livestock and fertilizer use have made success unlikely.
Posted inInside the News Room
How The Lens got the state of Louisiana to turn over a $1,000-an-hour contract with out-of-state lawyers hired to defend the state police
It took several months and a lawsuit, but a judge agreed that legal contracts are public records.
Posted inOpinion
Finish Renaming the Streets Now
The Juneteenth holiday serves as a reminder that the City Council should wait no longer to finish the street renaming it began four years ago.
Posted inNew OrLEaNS
The Sound of Freedom
The historical and ongoing struggle for civil rights have been expressed through music in New Orleans. So it seems only right that music is the driving force behind several local Juneteenth commemorations.
Posted inSchools
New Orleans’ intensive Center for Resilience closes abruptly
A therapeutic program run by ReNEW will enroll some of the center’s students, but can’t offer the same hospital-level care. That leaves some students without a school that can address their severe behavioral needs.
Posted inBehind The Lens
Behind The Lens episode 240: ‘An enduring insult’
Special guest writer Lolis Eric Elie on local civil rights pioneers who are being to replace the current street names, including his father, Lolis Edward Elie.
Posted inEnvironment
A research duel heats up, amid high-stakes decision on LNG exports
As groups try to influence a federal decision, Louisiana fishers squeezed by current LNG exports call for an end to expansion.
Posted inSchools
A concussion and a missing dreadlock
After a teacher held him by his hair, a 13-year-old child was punched by a classmate and suffered a concussion. The teacher had been arrested for a similar classroom incident nine years ago in another parish.
