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.
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.
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.
When you walk around New Orleans, you can see the Haitian influence everywhere, from the creole cottages to the jambalaya. And thousands of New Orleanians trace their ancestry back to the island. This connection had one journalist asking, is the feeling mutual?
“Let us all come together so we can go as one and move another place instead of flooding out every year because we’re getting older,” says one resident of Pecan Acres, in Pointe Coupee Parish. “We’ll be better off. We won’t got to worry about worrying when the storms come.”
After pouring record rains on Texas, Tropical Storm Harvey made a second landfall Wednesday to strike Louisiana, a state that still bears deep scars from 2005's Hurricane Katrina.
With an ally in the White House and declining demand for oil in the US, American companies are pushing to expand the nation's oil infrastructure in order to export crude overseas.
California sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild ventured out of her liberal bubble to try to grasp why some conservatives reject government regulations in Louisiana, even as industry pollution persists, largely unchecked, for years.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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Environment
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.
Arts, Culture & Media
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."
Environment
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.
Arts, Culture & Media
Global hit - BellX1
The World
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.
Arts, Culture & Media
Geo Answer + Global Hit
The World
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
The World
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
Arts, Culture & Media
Global Hit - Julieta Venegas
The World
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.
Arts, Culture & Media
Global Hit - Natacha Atlas
The World
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.
Arts, Culture & Media
Bach on Mars
The World
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
The World
December 19, 2008
Reporter Rob Schmitz updates us on the case of a California man who's been charged with terror offenses in the United Arab Emirates.