Part 1 of a 2-part series exploring the future of farming seafood in the Gulf. There’s a growing global movement to farm more and more of our seafood. Currently, proposals are being considered to establish massive fish farms in U.S. federal waters. The most likely first home to these new farms is the Gulf.

A new study published in Nature Communications looked at what happens when climate change and toxic pollution intersect.

The new rule, proposed Nov. 17, is the latest in a convoluted, decades-long fight over which streams and wetlands qualify as “Waters of the United States” and thus are regulated by the federal government under the Clean Water Act.

Waste has been stored and recycled at other sites, but LDEQ grants an emergency exemption for River Birch.

Ten people were arrested earlier this month for alleged immigration violations during a joint state and federal patrol of oyster beds in St. Bernard and Terrebonne parishes.

The smallest and most endangered of sea turtles, the Kemp's Ridleys, have returned to Louisiana's Chandeleur Islands after 75 years.

The climate talks — known as Conference of the Parties, or COP30 for this year’s edition — have long left Indigenous people out or relegated them to the sidelines.

Louisiana is in the top four, costing more than $300 billion since 1980.

The practice is called community, citizen or participatory science, and it involves data collected from non-scientists that’s passed along to researchers who use their expertise to study and understand what they mean

What does it take to stay rooted on the Gulf Coast, even as the land and weather change around us? We meet individuals, from a poet to a minister to a computer programmer, each finding their own creative ways to adapt and fight for the future of their communities.