What do you love about New Orleans? Whether you left the Louisiana or stayed after Katrina, we want to hear from you. What did you leave behind—and what did you carry with you? Visit wwno.org/loveletters and tell us what the city means to you, then and now.

Unlike most wetlands in Louisiana, the Wax Lake Delta is actually growing. Reporter @evartesfaye.bsky.social joins us to talk about how scientists are using it as a living laboratory to study what makes a healthy wetland.

In Louisiana, A Chance To Study A Successful, Growing Wetland

Many wetlands are disappearing, but Louisiana’s “accidental” Wax Lake Delta is growing—and informing coastal restoration techniques.

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Amid the rapid erosion of Louisiana’s coast, something hopeful is happening where the Atchafalaya River meets the Gulf. @eplunk.bsky.social & @evartesfaye.bsky.social w/ @wwno.org explore an accidental delta for the @agwaterdesk.bsky.social series "Down the Drain" lailluminator.com/2025/04/18/d...

'A living laboratory': An accidental delta taught Louisiana scientists how to rebuild wetlands • Louisiana Illuminator

Something hopeful is happening at the Atchafalaya River meets the Gulf. A flow of sediment from a decades-old river diversion has accidentally given birth to new wetlands.

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Although the 1890 scholars program is reinstated, alumni and advocates are organizing to ensure the survival of historically Black land-grant institutions. capitalbnews.org/hbcu-scholar...

Black Farmers Mobilize to Protect Vital HBCU Scholarship

Although the 1890 scholars program is reinstated, alumni and advocates are organizing to ensure the survival of historically Black land-grant institutions.

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My latest for @19thnews.org is about the passion forest service workers have for the land they manage. And what it's like when their jobs are ripped away. Yesterday an independent commission ruled their firings were likely illegal. But their plight is far from over. 19thnews.org/2025/03/trum...

These rangers spent years building careers in land stewardship. Then the Trump administration fired them.

With their futures in limbo, The 19th spoke to three women about their jobs with the U.S. Forest Service, and about the recent turmoil caused by efforts to reduce the size of government.

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These teenagers and young men — 95% of whom are Black, Latinx, or Filipino — earn between $2.20 and $4 per hour, plus an additional $1 an hour when they’re actively fighting fires, according to the DJJ. ⤵️

In California, Incarcerated Teenagers Help Fight Wildfires

"You’re put in danger every time you’re on the fire line.”

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🚨 First post here is an investigation that took weeks. In quietly held meetings in the Louisiana Department of Health, staff were told of a dramatic shift in policy: the department had banned the promotion of COVID, flu and mpox vaccines. www.npr.org/sections/sho...

Louisiana forbids public health workers from promoting COVID, flu and mpox shots

An NPR investigation found Louisiana health officials told staff to stop promoting vaccines for COVID, flu and mpox, holding flu shot events or otherwise encouraging the public to get those vaccines.

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#TheLensNola🔍 In late September, the Port of New Orleans leased to Sunrise Foods International and Norfolk Southern to quickly convert a warehouse for handling organic grain from Turkey. ✍: @delaneydryfoos.bsky.social Click the 🔗 for the full article https://buff.ly/3VOgzSc

“This ruling is a victory not just for us, but for every young person whose future is threatened by climate change. We have been heard, and today the Montana Supreme Court has affirmed that our rights to a safe and healthy climate cannot be ignored,” lead plaintiff Rikki Held said in a statement.

Montana Supreme Court affirms decision in Held, historic youth climate case • Daily Montanan

Limit on analysis of greenhouse gas emissions unconstitutional, court says in 6-1 opinion

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We have published a bunch more resources in the Long COVID Essentials series (a collab between @thesicktimes.bsky.social & @longcovidjustice.bsky.social), including many in Spanish! thesicktimes.org/2024/12/19/l...

Long COVID Essentials: New resources published - The Sick Times

We are thrilled to release the next batch of resources in our Long COVID Essentials series, featuring 32 new sheets! Our first batch of resources in Spanish is now live, along with the remaining Engli...

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In a unanimous vote on a controversial issue, in front of a booing chorus of constituents, the City Council’s Utilities Committee greenlighted Entergy New Orleans to sell its natural gas distribution system to Delta States Utilities. @thelensnola.bsky.social thelensnola.org/2024/12/17/c...

City Council committee allows Entergy New Orleans to sell its natural gas system | The Lens

Though Councilmembers were swayed by job creation, critics said that the jobs pale in comparison to the rate increases and environmental effects that Orleans residents will now shoulder.

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Me and Danny McArthur on the latest episode of Sea Change with @evartesfaye.bsky.social talking about returning scared Native American land -- as it's disappearing. And how it all fits into larger discussions around climate justice. Apple podcasts here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

Sacred and Submerged

Podcast Episode · Sea Change · 12/04/2024 · 24m

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If you don't to read about it, listen to the segment on direct air capture that I did with the masterful @evartesfaye.bsky.social www.wwno.org/coastal-desk...

Removing carbon from the air — a climate cure or waste of money?

The incoming Trump administration will have a say in whether federally backed direct air capture projects in Louisiana move forward.

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I was honored to talk to @evartesfaye.bsky.social about one community’s effort to stay put in the face of climate change. “The oyster reef is a living thing. … When the sea level rises, because oysters are growing on it, it will grow vertically as well, so it will continue to add protection.” — me

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Along Louisiana’s coast, tribes are witnessing their lands disappear underwater. Environment reporter Eva Tesfaye joins us to discuss how the Atakapa-Ishak/Chawasha tribe is creating protective reefs using recycled oyster shells.

Along Louisiana’s coast, tribes are witnessing their lands disappear underwater. Environment reporter Eva Tesfaye joins us to discuss how the Atakapa-Ishak/Chawasha tribe is creating protective reefs using recycled oyster shells.

Using Oyster Shell Reefs To Counter Sea Level Rise In Louisiana

Tribes’ historic lands on the Gulf Coast are being lost to the sea. To slow it down, one tribe has turned to oyster shells.

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