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Gulf South oyster reefs are fading because of the changing climate. Alabama hopes to reverse this by using recycled shells to grow oyster gardens.
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For the past six years, the Pointe-au-Chien Indian Tribe has battled to stop its historic earthen Indian mounds from slipping into the sea, looking to the power of oyster shells to protect them. Now, they’ve expanded that effort.
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Bags of oyster shells once slurped on at New Orleans restaurants clinked against each other as volunteers tossed them onto trucks, then boats, on Friday, set to return to the water to help save an eroding Indian mound of Plaquemines Parish’s west bank.
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Louisiana fishers might soon see federal disaster relief more than two years after the unprecedented flooding of 2019 — now considered the longest flood on record — devastated much of the commercial industry.
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I would like to address a false rumor circulating in the news. Multiple sources are claiming that summer is almost over. For evidence, they present…
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Louisiana’s Department of Health is shutting down several oyster harvesting areas due to low salinity caused by a steady influx of freshwater from the…
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The commercial fishing industry on the Gulf Coast has seen two major disasters in the last 15 years: Hurricane Katrina and the BP oil spill. Now, some…
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The Mississippi River has been at flood stage for months. Levees and spillways keep most homes and businesses safe and dry from the flood waters, but the…
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Environmental issues were big news in 2018 - locally, nationally, and globally. World leaders from 195 countries gathered in Poland to discuss how to…
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A former North Dakota lawmaker recently died after eating at a New Orleans restaurant. The alleged culprit: a bacterial infection from a raw oyster.…