What do you love about New Orleans? Whether you left the Louisiana or stayed after Katrina, we want to hear from you.

What did you leave behind—and what did you carry with you?

Visit wwno.org/loveletters and tell us what the city means to you, then and now.

Unlike most wetlands in Louisiana, the Wax Lake Delta is actually growing. Reporter @evartesfaye.bsky.social joins us to talk about how scientists are using it as a living laboratory to study what makes a healthy wetland.

Amid the rapid erosion of Louisiana’s coast, something hopeful is happening where the Atchafalaya River meets the Gulf. @eplunk.bsky.social & @evartesfaye.bsky.social w/ @wwno.org explore an accidental delta for the @agwaterdesk.bsky.social series "Down the Drain" lailluminator.com/2025/04/18/d...

Although the 1890 scholars program is reinstated, alumni and advocates are organizing to ensure the survival of historically Black land-grant institutions. capitalbnews.org/hbcu-scholar...

My latest for @19thnews.org is about the passion forest service workers have for the land they manage. And what it's like when their jobs are ripped away.

Yesterday an independent commission ruled their firings were likely illegal. But their plight is far from over.

19thnews.org/2025/03/trum...

These teenagers and young men — 95% of whom are Black, Latinx, or Filipino — earn between $2.20 and $4 per hour, plus an additional $1 an hour when they’re actively fighting fires, according to the DJJ. ⤵️

🚨 First post here is an investigation that took weeks.

In quietly held meetings in the Louisiana Department of Health, staff were told of a dramatic shift in policy: the department had banned the promotion of COVID, flu and mpox vaccines.

www.npr.org/sections/sho...

#TheLensNola🔍 In late September, the Port of New Orleans leased to Sunrise Foods International and Norfolk Southern to quickly convert a warehouse for handling organic grain from Turkey.

✍: @delaneydryfoos.bsky.social

Click the 🔗 for the full article
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“This ruling is a victory not just for us, but for every young person whose future is threatened by climate change. We have been heard, and today the Montana Supreme Court has affirmed that our rights to a safe and healthy climate cannot be ignored,” lead plaintiff Rikki Held said in a statement.

We have published a bunch more resources in the Long COVID Essentials series (a collab between @thesicktimes.bsky.social & @longcovidjustice.bsky.social), including many in Spanish! thesicktimes.org/2024/12/19/l...

In a unanimous vote on a controversial issue, in front of a booing chorus of constituents, the City Council’s Utilities Committee greenlighted Entergy New Orleans to sell its natural gas distribution system to Delta States Utilities. @thelensnola.bsky.social
thelensnola.org/2024/12/17/c...

Me and Danny McArthur on the latest episode of Sea Change with @evartesfaye.bsky.social talking about returning scared Native American land -- as it's disappearing. And how it all fits into larger discussions around climate justice.

Apple podcasts here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

If you don't to read about it, listen to the segment on direct air capture that I did with the masterful @evartesfaye.bsky.social
www.wwno.org/coastal-desk...

I was honored to talk to @evartesfaye.bsky.social about one community’s effort to stay put in the face of climate change.

“The oyster reef is a living thing. … When the sea level rises, because oysters are growing on it, it will grow vertically as well, so it will continue to add protection.” — me

Along Louisiana’s coast, tribes are witnessing their lands disappear underwater.

Environment reporter Eva Tesfaye joins us to discuss how the Atakapa-Ishak/Chawasha tribe is creating protective reefs using recycled oyster shells.