Louisiana

July 06, 2020

A coronavirus outbreak among workers at a Louisiana crawfish processing plant kicked off a legal battle with their employers over dangerous working conditions during the pandemic. Many of them are migrants on seasonal visas.

Immigrant ‘digital first responders’ provide vital services. They're in a financial crisis.

COVID-19: The latest from The World

April 30, 2020

The news media has become a vital resource during the coronavirus pandemic — especially outlets serving immigrant communities. But those organizations are suffering from the same financial crisis bigger media outlets are experiencing.

US deportation flights risk spreading coronavirus globally

COVID-19: The latest from The World

April 14, 2020

US officials say that immigration enforcement must continue, pandemic or not. But deporting people who may have been exposed to coronavirus in detention facilities risks spreading the disease to countries unequipped to deal with COVID-19.

Can Tulane University’s monkeys help the global fight against the coronavirus?

Growing Food, Sowing Trouble

April 06, 2020

Monkeys at the Tulane National Primate Research Center have been infected with the coronavirus. Eventually, the animals will be tested with potential vaccines.

Gulf shrimpers fight for their livelihoods in a fertilizer-fueled dead zone

Grist

January 28, 2020

Farm pollutants from multiple states feed a massive dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico. Shrimpers pay the cost.

The Mississippi: Pushed to the brink

September 03, 2019

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11/28/2019 - 11:00am

Up and down the Mississippi River, new pressures are being put on America’s inland hydro highway, which helps deliver US goods and commodities to the rest of the world and allows trade flows to return. The strain on the river system is only becoming more acute with the impacts of climate change.

Climate Change

A new book tells the stories of people coping with a changing American shoreline

Living on Earth

September 30, 2018

Across the United States, it doesn’t take a devastating storm for scientists and citizens to see the unwelcome transformations that climate change is causing right now.

Federal judge halts Louisiana pipeline

Living on Earth

March 10, 2018

A federal Judge has temporarily halted the Bayou Bridge Pipeline on environmental grounds. The pipeline would cut across Louisiana’s pristine Atchafalaya Basin in order to connect the Dakota Access Pipeline to the Gulf coast.

Science

In a hungry little insect, a big threat to Louisiana’s coast

Science Friday

December 24, 2017

A tiny invasive bug loves the cane that grows along the mouth of the Mississippi River. Can it be stopped?

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Lake Mead

March 18, 2008

Climatologist Tim Barnett talks about the troubles facing the nation's largest reservoir, Lake Mead, which is low on water due to reduced snowfall in the Rockies and the effects of climate change.

Upright Citizens Brigade

April 02, 2008

Matt Besser and Matt Walsh, two members of the improv comedy group the Upright Citizens Brigade, talk to Faith about their new DVD, "ASSSSCAT."

Growing Hope in New Orleans

Living on Earth

June 05, 2009

Will Bradshaw of Green Coast Enterprises tells Living on Earth about Project Sprout, a test plot of sunflowers in New Orleans. The sunflowers will remove heavy metals from contaminated soils and the sunflower seeds will be pressed to make biofuels.

Global hit - BellX1

February 18, 2008

The World's Clark Boyd profiles Irish rock band, Bell X1. The group is popular in Ireland, and now it's trying to break into the US music scene.

Geo Answer + Global Hit

April 25, 2008

The answer to our Geo Quiz is Bristol, England, home to the music style known as "trip-hop." Anchor Katy Clark tells us about British nostalgia for a couple of bands that made "trip-hop" so popular a decade ago.

Conflict & Justice

Baseball in Japanese internment camps

July 04, 2008

During World War II, more than 100,000 Japanese and Japanese-Americans were placed in internment camps in the United States; they couldn't earn money, practice their religion

Global Hit - Julieta Venegas

October 06, 2008

US-born Mexican pop star Julieta Venegas has gone unplugged and on the road. And as The World's William Troop tells us, she likes playing her new sound for Latino audiences in the United States.

Global Hit - Natacha Atlas

November 07, 2008

Egyptian-British singer Natacha Atlas looks for ways to make Arabic and western music sit comfortably together. For her latest tour, she's gone acoustic. Anchor Marco Werman tells us more.

Bach on Mars

November 10, 2008

Space probes have shown us what other planets look like, but what do they sound like?

Conflict & Justice

California man charged with terror offenses