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Environmental group tries to rebuild sinking coastline with recycled oysters

Oct. 02, 2024 10:55 AM EDT

Jonathan Phillips says he thinks about Louisiana’s disappearing coastline every day. As a commercial fisherman and member of the Atakapa-Ishak/Chawasha tribe, he sees water levels rising in Plaquemines Parish firsthand. He grew up in Marrero but spent a lot of time as a child in...

Takeaways from AP's story on Alabama's ecologically important Mobile-Tensaw Delta and its watershed

Aug. 13, 2024 11:16 AM EDT

Alabama’s Mobile-Tensaw Delta is a more-than 400-square-mile (1,036-square-kilometer) expanse of cypress swamps, oxbow lakes, marshland, hardwood stands and rivers unusually rich in plant and animal diversity. It's also a critical conduit between the rest of Alabama and the Gulf of...