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Making Waves: Louisiana emerges as global leader in water management
Aug 9, 2017In Louisiana, firms by the dozen focus their skills on the fragile relationship between coastal lands and water. More than 100,000 professionals work ...
How an 85-year-old engineering marvel protects New Orleans and shapes the region
Aug 8, 2017New Orleans, La. — Though it was a wet and cold January morning, Gerald Donaldson, 66, rode his bicycle through the traffic jam outside his house in t...
A Bayou Crevasse Centuries ago Holds Lessons for Today's Coastal Restoration
Jul 14, 2017Scientists studying a pre-Columbian bayou crevasse in south Louisiana have a lesson for today's coastal restoration efforts: Use mud instead of sand. ...
The Water Institute of the Gulf and The Water Campus
Jul 14, 2017What a new partnership could mean for the growing Water Campus in Baton Rouge. Specifically, we learn from leaders at the Water Institute of the Gulf ...
Global Risks and Research Priorities for Coastal Subsidence
Jul 13, 2017Baton Rouge, La. — Some of the world's largest cities are sinking faster than the oceans are rising. Humans are part of the problem, but we can also b...
Study: No major hurricanes, Louisiana wetlands loss slowed
Jul 12, 2017NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A new federal study says Louisiana's devastating wetlands loss has slowed slightly since 2010, but cautions that the main reason is...
Baton Rouge Water Institute expands collaboration with Dutch
Jul 10, 2017The Baton Rouge-based Water Institute of the Gulf today announced a new partnership with a Dutch research group to study coastal protection and restor...
Louisiana institute, Dutch research group launch partnership to study water issues
Jul 10, 2017Long before the first European explorers set foot on the Louisiana coast, residents of what is now the Netherlands already were dealing with problems ...
Louisiana, Dutch water institutes join hands on coastal solutions
Jul 10, 2017The Baton Rouge-based Water Institute of the Gulf will work with Deltares, a Netherlands-based water think tank, to develop a variety of coastal prote...
Lost Near Sea
Jul 3, 2017Imagine a coastal community slowly swallowed up by the water that provides its way of life. This is what Earl Armstrong, a resident of Venice, Louisia...
These are the most vulnerable communities in Louisiana's coastal parishes
Jun 28, 2017Louisiana's land loss and vulnerability to storms threaten communities across the coast. But in addition to geographic challenges, the effects of the ...
Coastal Research To Be Funded With BP Settlement Money
Jun 23, 2017Much of the money the state plans to get through the BP oil spill settlement will go toward big construction projects -- building barrier islands and ...