Florida's top elected officials, all Republicans, say they will work to stop the Trump administration's plan to open new areas in the eastern Gulf of Mexico to oil drilling.

As politicians argue over just how much land the Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion could build along a rapidly sinking coast, geologist Alex Kolker regularly makes the 65-mile drive down from New ...

Advocates and supporters of the Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion project rallied Monday, May 12, 2025, on the State Capitol steps in support of the stalled coastal restoration plan. (Elise ...

Gordon Dove, board chairman of the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority, just killed the Barataria diversion project. He seems to know more than all the experts and scientists who approve it.

Tiny plastic pieces have spread all over the planet — on land, in the air and even in clouds. An estimated 170 trillion bits of microplastic are estimated to be in the oceans alone. Across the globe, ...

Exhaled breath is collected from a wild bottlenose dolphin during a health assessment conducted by the National Marine Mammal Foundation and partners in Barataria Bay, LA. U.S. researchers have ...

PLAQUEMINES PARISH, La. — A possible oil spill in Barataria Bay was caught on video. The video sent to us by Adam Songy, shows what appears to be oil spewing out of two wellheads and into the water.

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Hundreds of people gathered Thurs., Aug. 10 to mark the initiation of Louisiana’s most extensive coastal project endeavor as construction begins for the Mid-Barataria Diversion ...

PLAYS OUT FOR YOU. SO STICK AROUND. OUR THANK YOU SO MUCH. NEW AT NOON AND DEVELOPING OUT OF GRAND ISLE ONE PERSON IS DEAD AFTER A SMALL PLANE CRASHES. IT HAPPENED THURSDAY IN THE AREA OF BARATARIA ...

The Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority received U.S. Army Corps of Engineers approval for its Mid-Barataria sediment diversion project this week that the agency says will help ...

Simone Maloz of Restore the Mississippi Delta does an excellent job in her May 27 op-ed of calling readers’ attention to the need for improved hurricane preparedness and protection. Its an important ...

Although it is reassuring to see Louisiana’s Coastal Protection Restoration Authority acknowledge irrefutable scientific evidence showing a massive die-off of the Barataria Bay bottlenose dolphin as a ...