As recent as 2012, Texas was impacted by the longest red tide on record, leading to the collapse of its oyster industry and the Governor to seek disaster assistance from ...

For decades, those leading efforts to keep southeast Louisiana from being swallowed by the Gulf of Mexico have supported 'Putting the river back into the marsh.' The thinking is that ...

To develop an earlier prediction of the size of theGulf of Mexico "dead zone" this summer,NOAA's National Weather Service and National Ocean Service combined data from the National Hydrologic Assessment ...

Based on a newly conducted study, an independent scientific panel reported today that existing Mississippi River freshwater diversions have not slowed the ongoing loss of Louisiana's wetlands. Restoration of Louisiana ...

Invasive species are nothing new. Neither is eating them, as anyone who's eaten Cambodian water spinach -- much of it grown here in Houston -- will tell you. But bringing ...

As a student in Port Aransas, Nancy Rabalais never had money, but she always had the sea. "Fish and oysters, crabs - whatever we needed we could always get something ...

There are things Iowa farmers and other landowners can do to reduce the flow of nitrate pollution into the Mississippi River and, eventually, into the Gulf of Mexico. But some ...

CHAUVIN, La. -- Generations of shrimpers, crabbers and oystermen have set out from this bayou village to net their catch. They share an emotional bond with Iowa's farmers: Both harvest ...

This post was co-authored with Bob Diaz, a WRI partner and professor at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science. This year's extreme weather events - a warm winter, even warmer ...

Nancy Rabalais, the Executive Director of the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium was recently awarded the MacArthur Award, for her dedicated, long-term efforts spanning multiple decades, documenting and mitigating the effects ...