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Coastal Desk

Coastal Desk

New Orleans Public Radio’s Coastal Desk covers all things related to climate and the environment. That means stories about land loss and efforts to restore a changing environment. It means coverage of the seafood industry and efforts to maintain levees in places prone to storm surge. It means stories about the oil and gas industry and the communities pushing back against development. And with sea levels rising and extreme weather happening more often, the coastal desk brings you the latest news and science about climate change.

Support for the Coastal Desk comes from the Greater New Orleans Foundation, the Meraux Foundation, the Walton Family Foundation, and our members.

  • Olga Loginova
    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.
  • Eva Tesfaye
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    WWNO
    Growers in New Orleans can often be kicked off the land they steward when they don’t have formal agreements, so some are turning to social media and the public for help.