Audio Post: Paul Davidson, Executive Director of the Black Bear Conservation Coalition Paul Davidson, Executive Director of the Black Bear Conservation Coalition tells the story of his struggle to keep the LA Black Bear from going extinct, and the limitations of the ability of the Endangered Species Act to keep the Bear from going extinct.re-posted …
Small dredges for shallow water work smarter. Down in South LaFourche, Windell Curole, takes his levees seriously. Terrebonne and Barataria basins experience the highest land loss rates of the coast, and are ground zero for historic oil and gas damages. Even before we consider the subsidence that the receding delta is experiencing, the LaRose to …
This blog has been cross-posted from Public Laboratory. To see the original article, click here by eustatic on February 1, 2013 10:59Photo by Mary Queen of Vietnam CDCDaniel Nguyen of MQVN discussed best practices for citizen science during the BP oil disaster–specifically citizen science that the fishermen of Village d’Est conducted with embedded Tulane University …
Will the Corps and the state of Louisiana starve the Delta at the whim of oil and gas?In 2011, a swollen Mississippi River re-connected itself with the marshes of Bohemia, without any help from the Corps–but it forgot to ask Shaw for a permit to restore our coast. After 2 years, the oil company that …
Corexit:: the more we know the more we regretA new modelling study shows the ineffectiveness of deepsea dispersant Much has been made of the unprecedented use of the dispersant Corexit in the 2010 disaster, especially the unheard-of deepsea application. We at GRN have sued EPA because they backed down and approved the use of Corexit …
Public Service Announcement: when it comes to storm surge in south Louisiana, don’t Be in the Vee. And don’t let the Corps put you into one. Louisiana is still shaking from Isaac’s slow hit, and once again, coastal communities have been moved, coastal communities have lost everything, and coastal communities have been coated in industrial …
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This article is excerpted from Wave Maker’s News, our quarterly update on all things water in the Gulf of Mexico, check out the full newsletter here.Mountain of Coal at International Marine Terminals, downriver from the Myrtle Grove Marina. After years of examining data, running computations, public comments, and conflict resolution, the Final 2012 Master Plan …
Let’s not catch coal. Although skeptics remain, and there is still much to learn, Louisiana scientists have made great strides in learning how to put the Mississippi River back into its role as a land-builder. And although the Flood of 2011 was a missed opportunity, there have been some lessons learned. Sand is Land. A …
It’s summer, and the second summer since BP changed the Gulf of Mexico forever. From the deep microbes to the highest mammals, nothing is the same. Something of our home is bouncing back but we know it will take time to reveal what we’ve lost.Among our worries is the population of whale sharks (Rhincodon typus, …
Last month, a fleet of airboats flew 30 volunteers to the Big Mar Area, new land created by the Caernarvon Diversion. The site bayward of these gates, built in 1991, is one of the few places in coastal Louisiana where land is being built. With new land and fresh water brought by the diversion, this …