Jun 01 Coping with Climate Change: Louisiana's Vanishing Coast By Saskia de Melker There are few places in America that are as vulnerable to climate change as Isle de Jean Charles in coastal Louisiana, which has been home for generations of native tribes. The island is on the frontlines of erosion, saltwater intrusion… Continue reading
May 31 Louisiana Islander: Water Is 'Closing in on Us' By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy // On Friday, the NewsHour will report on how subsidence, rising seas and storms have battered coastal Louisiana's Isle de Jean Charles, an island that has been home to Native tribes since the 1800s. As a preview to the… Continue reading
May 31 Watch Doris Naquin on her Sinking Island Home interview excerpts from erosion Louisiana story… Continue watching
May 30 Watch Coastal Geoscientist Explains Sinking State of Louisiana Interview with Torbjorn Tornqvist, Tulane University on sea level rise and subsidence… Continue watching
May 30 Why Louisiana Is Sinking By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy // On the NewsHour this week, we will be covering how rising sea levels are threatening people who live on the fragile Louisiana Delta. Hari Sreenivasan spoke with Torbjörn Törnqvist, a coastal geoscientist at Tulane University who studies the… Continue reading
Apr 20 Watch Gulf Still Grapples With Massive BP Oil Leak 2 Years Later Two years after the largest oil leak in U.S. history, the Gulf of Mexico region still struggles with its impact. Jeffrey Brown, David Valentine of the University of California, Santa Barbara and Garret Graves of the Coastal Protection and Restoration… Continue watching
Apr 06 Watch Buddy Guy: 'Blues Musicians Don't Retire, They Drop' Sixty years after picking up his first guitar, blues musician Buddy Guy still jams -- and has no plans of stopping. Jeffrey Brown and Guy discuss his upcoming memoir "When I Left Home: My Story," his childhood in rural Louisiana,… Continue watching
Apr 05 Watch After Danziger Shooting Sentencings, Feds Look to New Orleans Police Reforms Former New Orleans Police Officers Sentenced in Post-Katrina Bridge Shootings… Continue watching
Dec 06 Watch Parlez-Vous? Some Louisiana Pupils Being Immersed in French Instruction Louisiana's French heritage is being embraced in many immersion classrooms in the state. It goes beyond language -- some students are learning math, science and social studies in French. Sue Lincoln of Louisiana Public Broadcasting and the Southern Education Desk… Continue watching
Aug 05 Watch New Orleans Officers Convicted in Killings: a Turning Point for a Healing City? Five current or former New Orleans police officers were convicted Friday in connection with a deadly shooting on Danziger Bridge in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. New York Times reporter Campbell Robertson discusses how the convictions are being viewed in… Continue watching