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Delta Dispatches: A National Estuarine Research Reserve for Louisiana’s Coast
Delta Dispatches is kicking off 2021 with two of our favorite guests, Dr. Robert Twilley and Karen Gautreaux.
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Great Wall is great winter fishing spot - Louisiana Sportsman
The Bayou Bienvenue area has been a speckled trout hotspot for a long, long time. The MRGO funneled salty water straight up from the Gulf of Mexico to converge with the brackish waters of Lake Borgne, Lake Pontchartrain, the Intracoastal Waterway and Bayou Bienvenue, and that convergence of waters produced tremendous underwater highways and habitat for speckled trout, redfish, black drum, sheepshead, flounder and just about everything else that swims in the marsh and in coastal waters.
The Covid Recovery Must Begin With Climate Action
Opinion piece by Mayor LaToya Cantrell:
Global pandemics and deadly climate disasters should be once-in-a-generation crises. But in 2020, U.S. mayors from coast to coast have been forced to confront both.
New Orleans experienced its busiest hurricane season since 2005: Five hurricanes made landfall in Louisiana, and frequent rain storms flooded the streets of New Orleans.
Groundbreaking Ceremony Held for South Louisiana Wetlands Discovery Center’s New Wetlands Exhibit
Phase one of construction for the South Louisiana Wetlands Discovery Center’s (SLWDC) new wetlands exhibit and campus has begun.
An official groundbreaking ceremony was held at the site of the project on Thursday afternoon. The new campus will be built at 86 Valhi Blvd. in Houma, near the main branch of the Terrebonne Parish Library.
Record number of billion-dollar disasters struck U.S. in 2020 | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
It was an extraordinary year for weather and climate events in the U.S.: The nation endured an unprecedented 22 billion-dollar disasters in 2020.
A record number of named tropical storms formed in the Atlantic, with a record 12 making landfall. The nation also had its most active wildfire year on record due to very dry conditions in the West and unusually warm temperatures that gripped much of the country.
Here’s a recap of the climate and extreme weather events across the U.S.in 2020, according to scientists at NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information.