A line of development stretches across Southwest Louisiana, where a new law looks to redefine what wetland areas need permitting for development. (Elise Plunk/Louisiana Illuminator. Aerial support ...

ST. MARY PARISH – Louisiana’s wetlands are one of the planet’s most vital carbon storage centers, but destroying these reservoirs can accelerate harmful emissions that intensify global warming, ...

Louisiana has lost 2,000 square miles of coastal wetlands since the 1930s. It’s become a cliché to say that Louisiana is losing a football field of wetlands every 100 minutes, but the wetlands in ...

International Day of Biological Diversity hopes to highlight the plight of Louisiana's coast ...

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“The loss of wetlands didn’t cause Katrina, but it stripped away the natural buffer that should have slowed the surge.” The lessons that came out of Hurricane Katrina are manifold. The storm exposed ...

ST. MARY PARISH, La. — Amid the rapid erosion of Louisiana's coast, something hopeful is happening where the Atchafalaya River meets the Gulf. A flow of sediment from a decades-old river diversion has ...

A pillar of the state’s coastal restoration plan is dead. Its backers say it would have offered the most effective, natural storm protection. PLAQUEMINES PARISH, Louisiana — Twenty years after ...

The annual Louisiana Blackberry Festival, hosted by three nonprofit organizations, will take place this Saturday at the South Louisiana Wetlands Discovery Center in Houma, featuring live music, ...