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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Good gone wild 700 college students and the Clinton Global Initiative in New Orleans for spring break	Nathan Wyeth	26 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Commitments to start social-change initiatives and spirited discussions of global issues -- these aren't typical results of 700 college students heading to New Orleans during spring break season. But last weekend, students from a diverse group of colleges, several dozen university presidents, and prominent social change agents -- not to mention Bill Clinton -- spent a day and a half on Tulane University's campus for Clinton Global Initiative University (with a cameo ...
Topics: Bill Clinton, campus activism, climate, health, Louisiana (all these topics)

A Widening Gulf? Army Corps climate efforts in New Orleans may not be enough	Mike Tidwell	20 Mar 2008	Grist Feature
No one wants to see this again -- but can post-Katrina protection efforts keep the Big Easy safe? Photo: NOAA Here's the good news: The Army Corps of Engineers is "racing" to complete a comprehensive levee system for metropolitan New Orleans by 2011 that actually takes into account global warming, at least in terms of sea-level rise. Here's the bad news: the levee system under devel ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, climate, climate change adaptation, Louisiana, Mississippi River, placemaking, severe weather (all these topics)

We won't even help our own For mitigation over adaptation: the argument from cynicism	David Roberts	04 Sep 2007	Gristmill
The second anniversary of Katrina has passed, marked by me only with craven silence. There are three Katrina tidbits I wanted to pass along, though, as they are germane to the argument over whether humanity can or should adapt to ongoing climate change. The first is from a year ago. Jim Rusch, who was then acting governor of Idaho and who is likely to take over Larry Craig's recently vacated Senate seat, said this: Here in Idaho, we couldn't understand how peopl ...
Topics: climate, climate change adaptation, climate change mitigation, Louisiana, politics, severe weather (all these topics)

Hurricane Katrina and the myth of global warming adaptation When it comes to climate change, prevention is more important than adaptation	Joseph Romm	29 Aug 2007	Gristmill
G. Gordon Liddy's daughter repeated a standard Denier line in our debate: Humans are very adaptable -- we've adapted to climate changes in the past and will do so in the future. I think Hurricane Katrina gives the lie to that myth. No, I'm not saying humans are not adaptable. Nor am I saying global warming caused Hurricane Katrina, although warming probably did make it more intense. But on the two-year anniversary of Katrina, I'm saying Katrina showed the limitati ...
Topics: climate, climate change adaptation, climate change impacts, climate change mitigation, Louisiana, severe weather (all these topics)

And the Wind Cries Scary Pacific Northwest ocean dead zone getting larger		27 Jul 2006	Daily Grist
And the Wind Cries Scary Pacific Northwest ocean dead zone getting larger Researchers believe global warming is behind a recurring low-oxygen "dead zone" in the Pacific Northwest ocean. Triggered by north winds, a process called upwelling encourages the growth of phytoplankton blooms; when the water calms, the phytoplankton die for lack of nutrients, sink to the bottom, and rot, using up oxyg ...
Topics: climate, Louisiana, news, oceans, Pacific Northwest (all these topics)

Laid to Waste Portraits of loss in the wake of Katrina	Chris Jordan	02 Mar 2006	Main Dish
Click image to watch slide show. �� Photo by Chris Jordan. On a misty November morning in 2005, I was photographing in New Orleans' Ninth Ward neighborhood a few blocks from where one of the levees had failed 10 weeks earlier. Squatting in a driveway in foul-smelling mud, adjusting the knobs on my camera, I stood up to stretch my back and noticed a man sitting on some concrete s ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, environmental justice, health, Louisiana, Poverty and the Environment (all these topics)

Storm Front and Center The environmental take on Hurricane Katrina		12 Sep 2005	Main Dish
When Hurricane Katrina ripped through the Gulf Coast, it stirred up not just gale-force winds and untold misery, but a host of difficult environmental questions. How did heedless coastal development exacerbate the hurricane's toll? What's behind the socio-economic disparity in environmental planning -- and emergency response to environmental disasters? Did global warming make the storm more intense? What new ecolo ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, Louisiana, severe weather (all these topics)

Meet the New Loss Hurricane Katrina brings a foretaste of environmental disasters to come	Bill McKibben	07 Sep 2005	Soapbox
If the images of skyscrapers collapsed in heaps of ash were the end of one story -- the U.S. safe on its isolated continent from the turmoil of the world -- then the picture of the sodden Superdome with its peeling roof marks the beginning of the next story, the one that will dominate our politics in the coming decades: America befuddled about how to cope with a planet suddenly ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, Louisiana, severe weather (all these topics)

Any Report in a Storm How are journalists covering climate change in Katrina's wake?		01 Sep 2005	Main Dish
As the 140-mile-per-hour winds of Hurricane Katrina raged through the lush lowlands of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama on Monday, as people clung to their roofs, as levees crumbled, as fires blazed, we met in the Grist offices and asked each other: "Wonder if anyone's writing about climate change?" Frankly, we committed the sin of heartlessness of which journalists -- and many environme ...
Topics: climate, Louisiana (all these topics)

The Big Uneasy		12 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
The Big Uneasy In Louisiana, the sea-level rises caused by global warming aren't the stuff of dry scientific reports; they're already a local reality. Up to 35 square miles of the state's wetlands get a little too wet every year -- they disappear into the Gulf of Mexico. To date, Louisiana has lost an area the size of Rhode Island. Low-lying areas that have suffered years of poor environmental management are ...
Topics: climate, land degradation, Louisiana, wetlands (all these topics)

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