Feds press Louisiana on $3B coastal restoration megaproject

Lawsuits have stalled the Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion effort, so officials have threatened to pull funding.

Louisiana Coastal Restoration Projects Move Forward

Louisiana’s Coastal Protection Restoration Authority is moving forward with more than 100 active coastal restoration projects, nearly 40 currently under construction. 

La. Coastal Restoration Projects Move Forward

Louisiana’s Coastal Protection Restoration Authority (CPRA) is moving forward with more than 100 active coastal restoration projects, nearly 40 of which are currently under construction.

Community RISES to Occasion

Rockaway Beach Coastal Restoration Project, New York City By JoAnne Castagna, Ed.D. Allan Little, a sixty-two-year-old Far Rockaway resident, who is deaf, is sitting next to a beach dune, digging into the sand with his bare hands, under the warm sun. He is planting vegetation to help make Rockaway Beach more resilient to coastal storm […]

Coastal restoration project gives threatened coastal plant another chance

Back in 2000, Dag Madara, a geographer with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New York District was walking on Monmouth Beach, New Jersey, the location of the agency’s Atlantic Coast of New Jersey Sandy Hook to Barnegat Inlet Beach Erosion Control Project. He was monitoring the federally threatened bird – the Piping Plover (Charadrius […]

DW Planet A - Can we engineer the ocean to eat more of our emissions, 30092022

Marine environments are effective at capturing carbon and storing it for thousands of years. But what if we could engineer them to capture even more? Can they take on this burden?