Extreme heat is increasingly a serious public health issue in many parts of the world, including in Jackson, Mississippi. 2°C Mississippi, a Jackson-based climate change organization, is collaborating ...

Healthy cypress forests like the one pictured here at Bayou Sorrel, Louisiana, are part of what makes the Atchafalaya Basin a jewel of biodiversity. BRYAN TARNOWSKI FOR HUFFPOST Louisiana’s ...

Days after Hurricane Ida roared through coastal Louisiana, sending a 12-foot storm surge rushing across the marshlands south of New Orleans, Plaquemines Parish Fire Department Capt. Kevin Coleman was ...

Kindra Arnesen and her Louisiana fishing community have a lot to celebrate this Earth Day. (Photo courtesy of Kindra Arnesen) Kindra Arnesen and her family have spent their lives fishing for shrimp ...

This story was commissioned by the River City Journalism Fund. ST. LOUIS — Robin Proudie remembers working concessions at the old Busch Stadium as a teenager, selling popcorn and peanuts to hungry ...

A little more than a month ago, Plaquemines Parish officials were toasting a landmark $745-million judgment against Chevron for damaging the marshes and coastal fishing areas of Louisiana. The ...

Following climate change science is like tracking a snake, slithering along a rocky path that disappears into the dark crevasses of the unknown. Every once in a while, in the chance of a successful ...

The author, Carlos Carabaña, in the field. For the story, his team worked more than seven months, obtained various confidential documents and archival video, took 10 field trips and interviewed 30 ...

Two major American universities are in the news, thanks to the spadework of a number of small, independent news and research organizations. Newly unearthed documents reveal that the oil and ...

On Valentine’s Day I am thinking of love, and I’m worried about consumption. Love because it’s the foundation of existence, what drives us to do what we do. Consumption because it will lead to our ...

Barataria Bay is a marshy jewel in the heart of the vast Louisiana bayou. Its unparalleled natural ecosystem was once a hideout for smugglers and malcontents like Jean Lafitte, who ruled the labyrinth ...

Human life is dependent on the dynamics of the Earth’s climate system. The interactions of the atmosphere, oceans, terrestrial and marine ecospheres, cryosphere and land surface determine the Earth’s ...