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BusinessWeek
June 9, 2011
Peter Heller |
The Mississippi River Flood and the Katrina Risk New Orleans and Baton Rouge are one breached levee away from Katrina-like devastation. Can the Army Corps of Engineers save them?   |
Outside
August 2003
Misty Blakesley |
Ecotourism Adventure Travel - Water in the Balance Water issues chronically become water wars. Here are some collisions in progress--from bang-ups over how to divide spoils to clashes over big cleanups--that need to be resolved in the years ahead. |
Outside
February 2004
David Masiel |
Crude Reality As the brutal battle over proposed drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge grinds on, a former oil worker returns to the North Slope in search of the truth about the pro-exploration argument. His conclusion? (Brace yourself.) The unthinkable is the right thing to do. |
Smithsonian
May 2007
Wayne Curtis |
Cajun Country Zydeco and etouffee still reign in western Louisiana, where the zesty gumbo known as Acadian culture has simmered since 1764 |
Popular Mechanics
March 2006 |
Now What? The lessons of Katrina |
Outside
December 2005
Ace Atkins |
Aftershock Documenting the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the biggest natural disaster in American history. |
Wired
February 2007
John Geoghegan |
Inherit the Wind The Gulf Coast is littered with the carcasses of unused oil equipment. Now those structures are being re-purposed to build the first offshore wind farm in the United States. |
Outside
March 2003 |
The Big Game Reviews of A Dangerous Place: California's Unsettling Fate, by Marc Reisner; and Searching for El Dorado: A Journey into the South American Rainforest on the Tail of the World's Largest Gold Rush, by Marc Herman |
Smithsonian
August 2005
Scott Weidensaul |
Presence of Mind - Ghost of a Chance How did the ivory-billed woodpecker, which was feared extinct, hang on all these years? |
Geotimes
November 2005
Naomi Lubick |
Louisiana's Marshland Mess Even before the past season's devastating hurricanes, Louisiana's wetlands were in rough shape. More than a century of building dams, levees and canals to control the Mississippi River changed the wetlands, limiting sediment and leading to soil compaction from the loss of vegetation. |
Mother Jones
Sep/Oct 2001
Jan DeBlieu |
Keeping the Coast Clear How a band of activists blocked Big Oil's drilling plans off North Carolina's outer banks... |
Popular Mechanics
March 6, 2006 |
Hurricane Katrina August 28, 2005 Video Conference The transcript here suggests that, contrary to popular perception, federal authorities were alert to the risks posed by Katrina and fully engaged in planning for the disaster. |
Geotimes
August 2005
Naomi Lubick |
Hurricane Katrina Hits Hard One of the largest hurricanes to make landfall in the U.S. Gulf Coast region since Hurricane Camille in 1969, Hurricane Katrina left a trail of devastation behind it as it touched down in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. |
National Real Estate Investor
October 1, 2005
Margaret Leonard |
Rebuilding After Katrina Investors and operators of more than 10,000 businesses in New Orleans have lost uncounted millions. The same storm also brought opportunities worth billions in redevelopment and restoration of a city. |
Geotimes
June 2003 |
Geophenomena Evidence for Dust Bowl dust in Greenland... New sinking rates for Louisiana |
Inc.
May 2004
Stephanie Clifford |
Southern Hospitality There's no place like home for a software entrepreneur who hosts clients and staff at his 1,000-acre crawfish farm in Louisiana. |
Geotimes
December 2005
Donald C. Swanson |
Don't Try to Fool Mother Nature Protecting and maintaining a city on a delta is confronting the dynamics of sediment and water responding to gravity, a basic force in the universe. Gravity-driven phenomena dominate the delta environment and are major guns in Mother Nature's arsenal. |
Real Travel Adventures
July 2005
Robert Painter |
Wanna Build a Wooden Boat? Guys, take your wife on an extended dream vacation in New Orleans and end up with a brand new boat! |
Geotimes
August 2005
Megan Sever |
Confusion Over Sinking Coasts in Gulf A new federal report states that land in Louisiana and probably throughout the Gulf Coast has been sinking at a relative rate of more than 1.5 meters (5 feet) per century for at least the last 100 years -- a rate significantly higher than previous reports have shown. |
Smithsonian
May 2007 |
Cajun Country Highlights & Hotspots Summer events to help you plan for your visit to Louisiana. |
