Louisiana

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.

Environment

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?

Arts

New Orleans and Haiti are linked by culture, food and history

PRI's The World

October 27, 2017

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?

Economics

Frequent flooding in Louisiana could lead to buyouts for entire neighborhoods

Science Friday

October 13, 2017

“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.”

Economics

Human trafficking is a hidden aftermath of natural disasters

PRI's The World

October 05, 2017

After a natural disaster, people scramble to rebuild their houses, get food and water. But for sex traffickers, it can also be a scramble to cash in.

Environment

Louisiana braces for heavy winds and rain as Harvey strikes again

Agence France-Presse

August 30, 2017

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.

Economics

US oil producers race to build infrastructure while nationwide protests mount

Living on Earth

June 03, 2017

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.

Culture

A liberal author tries to cross over an 'empathy wall' in Louisiana

Living on Earth

May 03, 2017

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.

Justice

Why some immigrants and refugees in Louisiana are having trouble getting married

PRI's The World

November 02, 2016

A new law in Louisiana that adds new requirements to process marriage licenses is being challenged for discrimination against refugees and immigrants.

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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

PRI's 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

PRI's 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

PRI's 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

PRI's 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

PRI's 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

PRI's 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

PRI's 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.