Louisiana Coastal Watch

02/11/2025

Louisiana has lost 2,000 square miles of coastal wetlands since the 1930s.

Louisiana has lost 2,000 square miles of coastal wetlands since the 1930s. A Baton Rouge Magnet High student is studying the model of the Mississippi River for its accuracy.

02/04/2025

A new report from First Street Foundation suggests that New Orleans will see some of the nation's highest increases in property insurance rates by 2055.

02/03/2025

President Donald Trump's early executive orders endangers Louisiana's coast, columnist Bob Marshall argues.

02/03/2025

Leeville is at the forefront of Louisiana’s coastal land loss crisis. In 2021, Hurricane Ida destroyed what was left of the small fishing village near Grand Isle and Port Fourchon.

01/08/2025

This is my final story as a staff writer for The Times-Picayune. I'll still be freelancing as a WFF Environment Program Fellow, and can still be contacted via my Advocate email, [email protected].

The low-oxygen conditions that form in the Gulf each summer kill bottom-living organisms and result in fish and shrimp moving offshore to escape its effects.

01/07/2025

The low-oxygen conditions that form in the Gulf each summer kill bottom-living organisms and result in fish and shrimp moving offshore to escape its effects.

12/31/2024

The spill was contained with booms and is expected to evaporate over the coming days.

12/31/2024

Residents claim the Port of New Orleans hasn't been transparent about the project, but the Port is pushing back.

12/27/2024

A natural gas pipeline company has agreed to pay a $62,500 EPA fine for illegal hydrocarbon emissions from a leaking storage tank in Patterson, La., after Hurricane Ida.

12/19/2024

The USGS reported an earthquake near Uncertain, Texas, early Friday morning. Reports are the quake could be felt around north Louisiana,

12/19/2024

Louisiana has become a global hub of LNG production, but a new federal report raises questions over the rapid buildout of the plants.

12/17/2024

The Environmental Protection Agency has finalized its finding that a small area of Evangeline Parish containing Cabot Corporation’s Ville Platte carbon black manufacturing plant has failed to meet a 14-year-old

12/09/2024

The new plan includes six projects aimed at restoring fish and invertebrates that live in the Gulf’s water column, and four to help restore sea turtles.

Federal agencies recommend spending $210 million in BP oil spill money for 10 Gulf of Mexico fisheries, endangered sea turtle restoration projects

12/09/2024

Federal agencies recommend spending $210 million in BP oil spill money for 10 Gulf of Mexico fisheries, endangered sea turtle restoration projects

12/02/2024

Columnist Bob Marshall ponders how to save the coast in this new political era

12/01/2024

Lapeyre oversaw nominating committees for the post-Katrina east and west bank levee authority board members for 18 years.

Laitrim CEO Jay Lapeyre, who oversaw selection of post-Katrina east and west bank levee authority board members, has resigned from the board member nominating committees.

11/28/2024

The plan proposed to fill a section of Lake Pontchartrain to build a row of multi-million dollar homes on land that is currently underwater.

11/28/2024

A park volunteer says the investigation failed to answer key questions on herbicide use in City Park. The park's contractor, however, called the probe fair.