The recent escape of 10 individuals from the New Orleans Correctional Center has quickly shifted from a public-safety crisis ...

New research shows that typically, less than 10% of land-building alluvium reaches the Bird’s Foot Delta region, the ...

For the second consecutive year, a federal judge tells the DOC to provide Farm Line workers with protections from the sweltering Louisiana heat. Women hoeing in the fields at the Louisiana State ...

Delaney Dryfoos on the the largest new delta in North America. Marta Jewson on how the decentralized New Orleans school ...

Bejasa, an avid bicyclist who spent three months in a wheelchair after being hit by a car, asks Lens readers to join her at ...

The Barataria Basin in Plaquemines Parish area has suffered from decades of land loss. (Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority) The Mississippi, America’s river, is in flood. Over one ...

Last week, the senators on Louisiana’s Senate Judiciary C committee (above) voted against the will of their constituents when they passed a bill that would automatically funnel all arrested 15- and 16 ...

As politicians argue over just how much land the Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion could build along a rapidly sinking coast, geologist Alex Kolker regularly makes the 65-mile drive down from New ...

This week on Behind The Lens, the Calcasieu river’s ongoing pollution, on top of decades of hazardous waste dumping, earned it a top 10 slot on American Rivers’ 2025 list of most endangered rivers.