For the first time in years, the recently combined papers teamed up with the nonprofit ProPublica news service to give us the urgent, in-depth coverage that the worsening crisis deserves.
In the second part of a special two-part series, reporter and photographer Spike Johnson looks how Midwest agriculture contributes to the dead zone and what's being done to reduce the damage.
In the first part of a special two-part series, reporter and photographer Spike Johnson examines how dead zones affect the Gulf seafood industry and efforts being taken in Louisiana to mitigate the problem.
The report cited “the unique vulnerability of New Orleans to the devastating consequences of climate change and the urgent need for decarbonization to prevent dangerous levels of global warming.”
Money will be used for repairs in eastern New Orleans.
Will Louisiana, beholden as it is to Big Oil and the chemical industry, ever get serious about cleaning up Death Alley?
Council plan calls for a new solar plant in eastern New Orleans, solar purchases from outside the city. The coalition’s plan aims to get the city to 100 percent renewable energy by 2040.
Entergy is among the many US utilities who have started switching from coal to gas power, but have been slower to adopt renewables.
Bottlenose dolphin are dying; oysters, crab and shrimp could be next.
