The Sustaining Our Urban Landscape (SOUL) launched an initiative to plant 700 native trees in the historic, low-lying Pontchartrain Park with a goal to plant one in front of every home by March 2022. Trees are helpful when mitigating stormwater runoff, help clean the air, in addition to providing shade and beauty to communities. By […]
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Since New Orleans was settled by the French in 1718, New Orleanians have been learning to adapt to and live with water. The city is a series of basins surrounded by Lake Pontchartrain and nestled along the mighty Mississippi. Grey infrastructure in the form of pipes, pumps, and drains combine to make our drainage system.
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Elections create change, and change creates opportunities. And so it is with Election 2020, as the prospects of action on climate change and an end to the dirty and dangerous business of offshore drilling seem much closer. After many years in which Healthy Gulf and a broad coalition have fought against the continued expansion of
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Oyster populations all around the US are at all time lows. This fact calls for serious measures to be put in place to help restore oyster populations before it is too late.
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Living in a city below sea level means living in a city often inundated with water and its effects. Stormwater incentive mechanisms are easy to implement and afford community members the flexibility and creativity to reduce the impacts of flooding and runoff in our communities. Across the US, communities have employed successful incentive models such
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This blog was written by Julia Lingelbach, Healthy Gulf’s Gulf Fish Forever intern. Deep sea coral is part of a group of organisms called benthos which is a term used to encompass species that live on or close to the sea floor. Deep sea coral is part of the Phylum Cnidaria which also includes sea
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Concerned about Climate Change? Help Healthy Gulf map land loss in the Gulf and protect vital wetlands at http://cartosco.pe/landloss.
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Since we’re currently in the height of hurricane season, with Laura and Sally recently impacting large sections of the Gulf, I thought this would be a good time to share some information on how oysters are impacted by hurricanes, and how they can help protect us from hurricane damage.
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Mississippi’s Gulf coast faces major environmental challenges – the devastation of the oyster industry from numerous disasters, most recently the opening of the Bonnet Carre spillway; bacteria and water pollution hurting coastal tourism and fisheries; and the long-term loss of coastal habitat that helps sustain the Sound’s ecosystem.
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In April 2010, a blowout of BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil well caused over 200 million gallons of oil to spill into the Gulf of Mexico…
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