Gathered on a strip of salt marsh bordering the Gulf of Mexico, Tim Carruthers and his team of scientists huddle around a patch of soil marked by protruding PVC pipes. Pelicans soar overhead and ...

ST. MARY PARISH – Louisiana’s wetlands are one of the planet’s most vital carbon storage centers, but destroying these reservoirs can accelerate harmful emissions that intensify global warming, ...

BARATARIA BAY, La. -- Shoots of marsh grass and bushes of mangrove trees already are starting to grow back in the bay where just months ago photographers shot images of dying pelicans coated in oil ...

PORT FOURCHON, Louisiana (Reuters) - As blobs of tar wash up on Louisiana's outer shoreline three weeks into a huge oil spill, the focus is on protecting the fragile, disappearing marshes at the heart ...

First they came for Louisiana’s marshes. Now they may be coming for its swamps. Nutria, an invasive, orange-toothed rodent blamed for eating through several hundred acres of Louisiana marsh each year, ...