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Courtesy of Cassandra Glaspie/LSUAt approximately 1,332 square miles, the low oxygen area is the second-smallest in four decades of measurement. -
Geert VliegerThroughout Western history of conservation, protecting nature has often meant removing people. It's what happened during the creation of many of America's national parks. But what if protecting nature didn't have to mean displacing the people who call it home? That's the question that brings us to Culatra, a small fishing island off Portugal's southern coast, and one of the country's seven natural wonders.For decades, the Portuguese government saw only one way to save the fragile lagoon surrounding Culatra: kick out the residents. This episode follows one woman's decades-long fight for her island — and the unlikely alliance she built along the way with the very scientists once sent to evict her.
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Public officials, experts and advocates agree the fee is needed to make up a funding gap, but are split on how it should be carried out. -
This is part 3 of our three-part series about elements. And today is a biggie: carbon. When we hear about carbon, it's usually about its role in heating up the planet. And while that's an absolutely critical part of the story, the story of this most miraculous of substances is so much larger. -
The pipeline would have been a part of Air Products and Chemicals’ carbon capture complex, which the company tabled last week. -
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration expects the oxygen-depleted zone to be about the size of the state of New Jersey. -
We interviewed more than 50 experts to create a community toolkit. It lays out how ordinary people can respond — and how communities can prepare to handle projects beforehand. -
The storm dumped rain across the region — some areas saw 6 to 9 inches in a matter of hours. -
This is part 2 of our 3-part series about elements. Last time we met nitrogen, today, it’s partner in crime and in life – phosphorus. -
The National Weather Service says heavy rain from Tropical Storm Arthur's remnants is falling in southern Louisiana on Thursday morning and is expected to move into Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and the Florida Panhandle. -
The Natural Resources Conservation Service is a federal agency that helps farmers protect soil and water and fight climate change. Advocates say those goals are in jeopardy. -
In this three-part series, we’re giving some of the most misunderstood characters on the periodic table a fuller story. We dive into the fascinating double lives of these elements that are both the makers and unmakers of our world.In part one, reporter Olga Loginova travels to Cape Cod to meet nitrogen. In this episode: we trudge through the marsh, avoid great white sharks, and find out how we harnessed the power of nitrogen, why that power turned against us, and what we can do about it.
