Janet McConnaughey / AP 16 May 2019 NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The year’s widespread flooding has made it likely that a big, oxygen-starved “dead zone” off Louisiana’s coast will form this summer, the head of the National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science said Thursday. Preliminary computer model runs “indicate a large to very large year,” [...]
Brian Kahn / Earther 27 March 2019 Photo: Getty The byzantine networks of rivers and streams that drain the Midwest is facing a flooding crisis of historic proportions. The multibillion disaster centered in Nebraska will spread this spring, with above average rainfall expected to cause floods to impact some 200 million Americans [...]
Steve Hardy / The Advocate 21 March 2019 The Mr. Andre', a DAL-CO Marine Services supply boat, passes in front of the Louisiana State Capitol, seen across the Mississippi River from the Old Ferry Landing in Port Allen, Wednesday, March 20, 2019. (Advocate staff photo by HILARY SCHEINUK) All of Louisiana will [...]
Erin Jordan / The Gazette 3 December 2018 Chapter 1: America’s Midwest faces worsening trouble with undrinkable well water, recreational lakes choked with toxic algae and water treatment plants requiring budget-busting upgrades to remove pollution washing from farm fields and industries. A government task force said in 2008 it would cut nitrate and phosphorus [...]
Erin Jordan / The Gazette2 December 2018 'They need to say it's against the law to pollute downstream' Tommy Olander Jr. on Aug. 9 drives his family's shrimping boat in Vermillion Bay off the Louisiana coast near Jeanerette. Vermillion Bay, inland of the oxygen-deprived “dead zone,” was expected soon to be full of shrimp [...]
Max Freund / The Gazette2 December 2018 The hypoxic, or low-oxygen, mass of water in Louisiana coastal waters west of the Mississippi River is often called the dead zone because fish, shrimp and other species that can swim away do because there’s too little oxygen to survive. The size of the dead zone has [...]
Matt Rota / The Advocate 8 October 2018 There is an environmental crisis in Florida right now. The red tide has spread to the Atlantic coast, and it’s affecting some of the most popular beaches near Miami. The photos of dead manatees and endangered sea turtles killed by red tide are shocking and heartbreaking. [...]
It’s not easy to push an alligator around, but hurricanes have been known to move them miles from home. Shown here is a resident of Everglades National Park, Florida. Photograph by Keith Ladzinski, National Geographic Creative Liz Langley / National Geographic 21 September 2018 Storms like Hurricane Florence take a toll on [...]
Craig Pittman / Tampa Bay Times 20 September 2018 Red Tide influenced by Mississippi River: Scientists say pollution flowing into the Gulf of Mexico is fueling the Red Tide algae bloom, and making it resemble the one in 2005. (Sept. 20, 2018) Video Editing: Tracee Stockwell, Tampa Bay Times The Red Tide algae bloom [...]
(Pixabay) Chloe Reichel / Journalist’s Resource 30 August 2018 When extreme weather occurs, questions of whether and how climate change contributed to the event loom large. According to Rick Weiss, director of SciLine and past science reporter for the Washington Post, it’s a fraught area, and reporters can easily veer from what the research says. [...]
