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Video of Wetlands Restoration From Mr. Jacque Kutchta, as his boat transited, very recently, downriver, below Venice, on the main River channel. The dredge material is being pumped, by the cutterhead dredge,  into open areas, where wetlands restoration is stabilizing and rebuilding areas of the Birdfoot. As seen by Jacque and many others, there is...

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The dominant greenhouse gases released into the Earth’s atmosphere reached record levels in 2018, and their global warming power is now 43% stronger than in 1990, according to a new report by the American Meteorological Society released Monday. The State of the Climate in 2018 study also reported other key findings: 2018 was the fourth-warmest...

While on a board member retreat for Houston Wilderness in 2008, Elizabeth Winston Jones and Jim Blackburn worked together on a “green think tank,” which was created to develop innovative ideas on how to create a system that utilized the remarkable ecological resources of the Texas coast to solve the region’s greatest environmental problems. This...

For years, the Rockefeller Wildlife Refuge that hugs 26 miles of Gulf of Mexico shoreline in remote southwestern Louisiana has been a haven for nature lovers and researchers. But the refuge has been eroding at an alarming rate. So state and local officials are teaming up to extend a large breakwater in Cameron Parish to...

BATON ROUGE – Today, Gov. John Bel Edwards announced an $18 million partnership between the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) and the Cameron Parish Police Jury to add three additional miles of unique rock breakwaters to the shoreline that protects the Rockefeller Wildlife Refuge in Cameron Parish. Read more here…

Hurricane Barry’s approach last month left many in the New Orleans area anxious and uncertain. Despite being a relatively weak storm, it came while the Mississippi River was at a height not normally seen during hurricane season, and forecasters warned that if it approached on just the right track, a surge could push the river’s...

The risk of a ratings downgrade can pressure cities and companies to take steps to mitigate climate risks, such as from sea level rise. One of the main agencies that rates the creditworthiness of big borrowers, including cities and corporations, has brought on board a data firm specializing in climate risks. It’s a signal that...

In early July, Bangladesh became the first country to grant all of its rivers the same legal status as humans. From now on, its rivers will be treated as living entities in a court of law. The landmark ruling by the Bangladeshi Supreme Court is meant to protect the world’s largest delta from further degradation...

U.S. Sens. Bill Cassidy and John Kennedy are among a congressional group introducing the Conservation of America’s Shoreline Terrain and Aquatic Life (COASTAL) Act to increase the amount of offshore energy revenues Louisiana, and other Gulf states, receive. Read more here…

A report from researchers at Louisiana State University predicts an annual hypoxic or “dead” zone in the Gulf of Mexico covering 8,717 square miles this summer, the second largest since monitoring of the phenomenon began in 1985. Scientists define hypoxia as a decrease in the concentration of dissolved oxygen in the water column to a...

A Louisiana-based conservation group has filed a lawsuit in federal court in California challenging a rollback of offshore drilling regulations by President Donald Trump’s administration that relaxed the requirements on blowout preventers and real-time monitoring. Healthy Gulf, formerly known as the Gulf Restoration Network, is one of 10 environmental groups that filed suit last month...

The Lafourche Parish Council last week voted to sell $14.5 million in bonds from expected federal offshore revenue. The money, stemming from the Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act, will be used to pay for eight major projects in the parish. Selling bonds from the annual payments allows the parish to receive the $14.5 million...

Jefferson Parish will build 17 rock jetties along the northern shore of Grand Isle, completing a project designed to help protect the island from storm surge and reduce coastal erosion. Using a $6.5 million grant, the parish will put the 350-foot-long breakwaters along the bay side of the island, using 62,426 tons of rock and...

Moody’s Corporation has purchased a controlling stake in a firm that measures the physical risks of climate change, the latest indication that global warming can threaten the creditworthiness of governments and companies around the world. The rating agency bought a majority share in Four Twenty Seven, a California-based company that measures a range of hazards,...