Life Raft

With flood risk increasing and flood insurance rates likely following suit, it seems like there's got to be a better way to tackle the challenge.For…

Everyone knows flood insurance isn’t the most exciting topic. What this episode presupposes is: maybe it should be?It’s not difficult to imagine a future…

Gov. John Bel Edwards wants Louisiana to dramatically cut its emissions by 2050. What would it take to get there?This week on Life Raft, reporter Tegan…

The 2020 Hurricane Season was intense. It set all kinds of records: most named storms in a season,and most to rapidly intensify, among others. Five storms…

Hey TriPod listeners! WWNO and WRKF want to introduce you to a new podcast of ours. It's called Life Raft. It's a show that explores questions about…

Hey there Sticky Wicket fans! WWNO and WRKF want to introduce you to our new podcast. It’s called Life Raft. Each episode explores a different question…

Happy New Year, Life Raft listeners!We’re busy readying the second half of the Life Raft season, but we still wanted you to feast your ears on some…

Doomsday prepping seems more and more logical to us on the Life Raft team. Climate change-induced weather disasters are only getting worse, and it never…

It’s been a big year for the environment, what with the 2020 hurricane season and the wildfires and everything else. We wanted to put together a little…

When it rains, it pours. And when it pours, it floods.More and more, that appears to be the situation down South. In New Orleans, several big rain storms…