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Today is the first-ever wind lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico. Windfall is the story of the potential of wind power in a changing climate.

New Orleans food writer Ian McNulty on new finds and classics in the local sushi scene.

On April 20th, 2010, out in the Gulf of Mexico, the Deepwater Horizon oil drilling rig exploded. The oil spill that followed is still considered the largest environmental disaster in the history of the United States. Today, we are looking at the impacts of the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster 13 years later. We hear about the ongoing health effects on people who helped clean up the oil spill and ask, has the broken system that led to this avoidable disaster been fixed?

New Orleans food writer Ian McNulty on the cocktail culture of New Orleans and the summer event Tales of the Cocktail.

Today, we talk with Jeff Goodell, Katharine Wilkinson, and Nathaniel Rich—three authors who write books that people want to read…maybe can’t put down…about the biggest existential threat of our time: climate change. We cover the importance of storytelling, what they've learned through the work and how the heck they even figure out what stories to write.

New Orleans food writer Ian McNulty on the seasonal salvation of Louisiana food in the summertime.

New Orleans food writer Ian McNulty on finding a new bar with an old soul in the French Quarter.

It's summertime. Most of us hope to spend time on the beach, or by a river, or a pool, and we thought we'd try to understand why? Why do we want to be by water, and why does it make us feel so good? And it’s not just us. Understanding how the power of water makes us healthier and happier is actually a growing field of research.