Spring is the perfect time for flotant marsh restoration. As part of restoring former oil and gas canals, Barataria Preserve is helping pioneer a flotant marsh restoration technique. Flotant marsh plants like maidencane (Panicum hemitomon) are not directly planted, so a new project unveiled in Barataria Preserve in Jean Lafitte Park hopes to recreate mats […]
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Co-Authored by Phil Radford, Executive Director of Greenpeace USA and Aaron Viles, Deputy Director of Gulf Restoration NetworkPhil Radford walks through oil from the Deepwater Horizon wellhead along the break water in Southpass where the Mississippi River meets the Gulf of Mexico in Louisiana. 05/20/2010The BP disaster turns two today. Two years since the nation
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Remember the Gulf this Earth MonthThis week marks the 2 year memorial of the BP drilling disaster, and the Gulf of Mexico can not seem to catch a break. The 2nd anniversary of the disaster is occuring as high gas prices encourage politicians and oil industry backers to demand more domestic oil drilling under the
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Almost two years ago, eleven men lost their lives in a fiery blowout on a deepwater rig. That astonishing conflagration was an alarming signal that the Gulf of Mexico would never be the same.Two years later, NOAA has a single boat, the Okeanos Explorer, that can deploy an ROV into the Gulf and survey the
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Photo by the Gulf Restoration NetworkAs you know, Friday On April 20, 2012, the nation will mark two years since the start of BP’s oil drilling disaster. The oil disaster continues to impact Gulf communities and ecosystems, and support is still needed to restore the Gulf. All weekend, organizations across the Gulf are organizing commemorative
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by: Hannah Chang and Marianne Engelman Lado Photo by Gulf Restoration NetworkRecently, groups from the Gulf of Mexico, together with organizationsrepresenting Alaskans and people concerned about dispersants from across the country, sent a letter to Dana Tulis at the U.S. Environmental Protect Agency (EPA), Chair of the National Response Team, to raise continued concern about
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Citizens Affected by Oil Disaster Invite BP Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg On Tour of Gulf CoastAdd your voice to the call for justice for the GulfBryan Parras of TEJAS addresses BP AGM protest while Derrick Evans of Turkey Creek, MS looks on. Photo courtesy of Liana Lopez.the following is a post from the Gulf Coast Fund.April
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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. Nitrogen and phosphorus pollution from farms and cities across much of the country (and parts of Canada) eventually dumps into the Gulf of Mexico, contributing to the Dead Zone.
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This past Saturday the sun was shining, the hunters were scavenging, and the beer was flowing at the final stop of NOLA Brewing’s 4th annual Easter Keg Hunt. The search began at the Howlin’ Wolf, and led over 300 contestants all around the Warehouse District of New Orleans. From the Confederate Museum to the lighthouse
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Way, way down at the end of the road, the Mississippi River has broken through its barriers to flood the marshes of Bohemia. On April 7th, we hiked down the flooded road to take a peek, and took the kite with us to gain some perspective. For the past few years, the Lake Pontchartrain Basin
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