As debate continues over a recent study suggesting New Orleans may face an unavoidable future because of rising sea levels, Steve Cochran, Ned Randolph, Katy Reckdahl and Gus Bennett take a deeper look at the challenges and choices ahead. In Part 2, the conversation explores climate adaptation, coastal land loss, public policy, culture, and resilience, asking whether one of America's most distinctive cities can continue to adapt and endure in the face of a changing environment.
The writer doesn’t take issue with the science behind the new Tulane study, but rather some of the social-policy assumptions built into the recommendation.
Coastal residents are rattled by a reported effort by a major aerospace company to acquire 136,000 acres of coastal marshland in Vermilion Parish.
A measured response to the latest study suggesting New Orleanians should abandon the city due to the imminent threat of sea level rise. Public policy advocate Steve Cochran, journalist and author Ned Randolph, photojournalist Gus Bennett and Lens editor Katy Reckdahl discuss the story from The Guardian which has the town talking. Part 1 this week.
St. John Parish leader ‘vetoed’ the showing of a documentary about the Denka plant.
Louisiana residents in two East Baton Rouge parks reported seeing the Asian needle ant, a stinging invasive species. The sightings were verified last summer by LSU AgCenter entomologists.
Louisiana needs a stable, science-based coastal strategy rather than a political one.
More than 180 polluting facilities nationwide, including dozens in Louisiana, emailed requests. Many were granted a two-year pause on compliance with Clean Air Act rules.
Because President Trump issued a controversial executive order last month that deemed glyphosate/Roundup as critical to national security, the Supreme Court ruling could reshape pesticide regulation and test Trump's base from within.
"Understand how the term relocation hits when you use it for those of us who have made lives here," writes 11th-generation New Orleanian Christopher Ard. "Maybe try 'abandon' or 'give up on.'"
