coastal news roundup

Adler Stelly on his boat in Abbeville, Louisiana on March 15, 2024. Stelly has been farming crawfish his entire life and said he's been hit hard by the drought.

Coastal Desk

The Coastal Desk's biggest news stories from 2024

Eva Tesfaye

WWNO’s Coastal Desk is taking a look back at the local and environmental news we produced this year.

An aerial view of broken wetlands in Plaquemines Parish. Projections by Climate Central indicate that the parish could lose another 100,000 acres of wetlands by the end of the century.

Coastal Desk

Louisiana voters want federal money from offshore wind to go toward coastal restoration

Eva Tesfaye

Louisiana’s coastal restoration fund could get a boost from offshore wind revenues.

Former Water Institute scientist, Ehab Meselhe, helped create the model that was used to make these CPRA maps of projected coastal land loss.

Local News

Former Water Institute Scientist Faces Federal Indictment

Tegan Wendland

The Water Institute is a Baton Rouge-based research institution that works with the state and the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority on issues...

A ship makes its way upriver toward New Orleans in January 2018 -- when the river levels were low.

Coastal Desk

Coastal News Roundup: Predicting Floods On The Mississippi River

Travis Lux

Towns along the Upper Mississippi River are dealing with some of the worst flooding they’ve ever seen. Busted levees. Flooded downtowns. What does that...

A plane drops chemical dispersant onto a sheen of oil during the BP oil spill.

Coastal Desk

Coastal News Roundup: Were The Chemicals Used To Clean Up BP Oil Spill Harmful?

Travis Lux

During the BP oil spill in 2010, responders used chemical dispersants to break up the oil. Recent studies have questioned both the safety and efficacy...

An oily sheen as seen from a plane in March 2019. An oil well owned by Taylor was damaged in 2004 and has been leaking ever since. Taylor disagrees with the Coast Guard about how much oil has leaked since 2004.

Coastal Desk

Coastal News Roundup: So Many Lawsuits

Travis Lux

This week on the Coastal News Roundup: the hotly contested Bayou Bridge Pipeline is finally complete. Plus, an update on two environmental lawsuits....

Several brown pelicans were reported either injured or killed in both Plaquemines and St. Bernard Parishes. After an investigation and necropsies, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries determined that no foul play was involved.

Coastal Desk

Coastal News Roundup: Who, Or What, Killed Pelicans In St. Bernard and Plaquemines?

Travis Lux

This week on the Coastal News Roundup: officials investigate who or what might have been behind all the dead pelicans in Plaquemines and St. Bernard...

The black rail used to be found across the US, but has been pushed toward coastal marshes, including in Louisiana.

Coastal Desk

Coastal News Roundup: New Research On Dispersants, And The Quest For An Elusive Marsh Bird

Travis Lux

The chemicals used to clean up the BP oil spill may not have been as bad as previous studies suggest -- that’s one of a few themes from the Gulf of...

Sediment pours out of a pipeline as part of Louisiana's Caminada Headland restoration project near Port Fourchon.

Coastal Desk

Coastal News Roundup: Looking Ahead To The Big Environment Stories of 2019

Travis Lux

This week on the Coastal News Roundup, WWNO’s Travis Lux talks with columnist Bob Marshall from Nola.com | The Times-Picayune. They reviewed some of the...