Saving Louisiana's coast
It was Day Nine after Katrina struck in 2005 when Sarah Mack's bosses at the Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans called her back to work.
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Aug 27, 2015
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Cajuns losing Louisiana island home to erosion
Deep in the bayous of Louisiana, time seems to move more slowly.
Environment
Aug 26, 2015
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World should heed lessons from Hurricane Katrina, economist says
A decade after Hurricane Katrina hammered America's Gulf Coast, measures are being taken there to protect against similar devastation from natural disasters—as well as against long-term, gradual impacts resulting from climate ...
Environment
Aug 20, 2015
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Safety regulators link Takata air bags to another death
U.S. regulators have confirmed that an air bag made by Takata Corp. was involved in the April death of a woman in Louisiana , connecting the defective air bags to a seventh fatality.
Business
Jun 12, 2015
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US says decade-old Gulf oil leak could last another century
For more than a decade, oil has been leaking into the Gulf of Mexico where a hurricane toppled a drilling company's platform off the coast of Louisiana. Now the federal government is warning that the leak could last another ...
Environment
May 16, 2015
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US judge tosses coastal damage suit against oil companies
A lawsuit filed in 2013 by a Louisiana flood board that sought damages—potentially in the billions of dollars—from scores of oil, gas and pipeline companies over erosion of the state's fragile coast was thrown out Friday ...
Environment
Feb 14, 2015
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Kudzu bugs spread into DC area, southern Delaware, Arkansas
The pea-sized bugs look a bit like ticks, can suck one-fifth of the yield out of a soybean field, and travel by highway. In the 5 1/2 years since they were first spotted in Georgia, kudzu bugs have spread 400 to 500 miles ...
Ecology
Jan 17, 2015
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US Gulf oyster harvest nose-dives since BP spill
Gulf Coast oyster harvests have declined dramatically in the four years since a BP PLC oil well blew in the U.S.'s worst offshore oil disaster, spilling millions of gallons off Louisiana's coast in 2010.
Environment
Aug 12, 2014
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Wildlife still suffers four years after BP oil spill
Birds, fish, dolphins and turtles are still struggling in the Gulf of Mexico, four years after the worst oil spill in US history, a leading wildlife group said Tuesday.
Environment
Apr 8, 2014
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Scientists collect water near site of blown well
Scientists are trying to figure out if a gas well that blew wild last week off the Louisiana coast is polluting the Gulf of Mexico.
Environment
Jul 29, 2013
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