Dec 10th, 2010 at 11:00AM: Reports last week from the beaches of Alabama and Mississippi suggest that the post-BP gusher cleanup continues, with varying degrees of success, and that new oil continues to show up.
Near the Alabama-Florida border, a placed called Perdido (Lost) Key, BP-contracted crews have been sifting sand for more than six months to try and get rid of tar mats buried nearly three feet beneath the sand.
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Bowermaster's Adventures: Checking in on the BP spill cleanup
Dec 10th, 2010 at 11:00AM: Reports last week from the beaches of Alabama and Mississippi suggest that the post-BP gusher cleanup continues, with varying degrees of success, and that new oil continues to show up.
Near the Alabama-Florida border, a placed called Perdido (Lost) Key, BP-contracted crews have been sifting sand for more than six months to try and get rid of tar mats buried nearly three feet beneath the sand.
...Bowermaster's Adventures: Five reasons we should not believe the BP mess is "cleaned up"
Nov 30th, 2010 at 2:00PM:
Three months ago, on August 2, the White House – citing an in-house National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration study – announced that 74 percent of the oil released into the Gulf of Mexico by the BP mess was gone, had either been cleaned up or simply disappeared.
Few seriously believed the report at the time, including many NOAA scientists; even fewer think it's true today. ...Bowermaster's Adventures - Measuring the extent of oil spillage
Nov 29th, 2010 at 11:30AM:
With the six-month anniversary of the BP spill now in the rear view mirror the company as well as a variety of officials both federal and state would like the world to believe the oil is gone.
But photos and first-hand accounts from Barataria Bay recently show the opposite – oil still reaching high into the marshy grasslands, baby crabs and adult shrimp covered by crude, slicks on the ...Best college restaurant: Good Morning America wants your vote
Nov 19th, 2010 at 11:30AM: For most of us, college was a low period in our culinary lives. Ramen, macaroni and cheese, beer for breakfast. . .ah, the memories!
When we got tired of contributing to our freshman fifteen with junk food, there was always that one place that served up something a little better, a little special. If you've been to college, or even if you haven't, I bet you just thought of that place right now. ...Bowermaster's Adventures: Lifiting the drilling moratorium
Nov 19th, 2010 at 9:00AM: Less than 180 days after the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded and sank and less than 60 days after BP finally sealed the well that leaked 200 million gallons of crude into the Gulf of Mexico, the Obama Administration lifted its own moratorium on deepwater drilling.
While Gulf State oil workers, especially in Louisiana, are relieved, hoping that new permits will be approved by year's end and jobs ...Abandoned Six Flags New Orleans video is creeping us out
Nov 5th, 2010 at 4:30PM:
Six Flags New Orleans, which closed as Hurricane Katrina approached in 2005 and has never reopened. The sign outside the park still announces that it's "CLOSED FOR STORM."
The theme park was in New Orleans' Ninth Ward, one of the hardest hit areas during Katrina and the flooding after the storm. Though many of the rides still stand, Six Flags says that saltwater from the flood has corroded ...Katrina exhibit opens in New Orleans
Oct 31st, 2010 at 11:00AM: It was the most catastrophic event in New Orleans history. Hurricane Katrina destroyed large swathes of the city and left hundreds of thousands homeless. Now the Louisiana State Museum has opened an exhibit chronicling the natural disasters that have visited New Orleans, culminating in the most recent and worst.
Living with Hurricanes: Katrina and Beyond, a 6,700 square-foot multimedia ...New York: best and worst city in schismatic survey
Oct 21st, 2010 at 12:00PM: If you want to travel like a local, then it makes sense to know something about your destination ... and isn't the best city to live attractive? It's the kind of place you'd want to explore and see why it's so loved. And at the same time, you'd probably want to avoid the worst of the worst – who would want to go there?
Well, a new Harris Interactive poll makes this thinking hard to ...From the Shores of Louisiana - Is gulf seafood safe?
Oct 20th, 2010 at 10:00AM: Baton Rouge, Louisiana: It's rare for me to see 67-year-old Wilma Subra – chemist, MacArthur Grant 'genius,' grandmother of six – so worked up. But when I asked last week how things were going in the Gulf, where she's been measuring levels of toxicity in air, water and fish long before the BP gusher began she was adamant that things are still bad out there.
"My biggest concern is ...From the shores of Louisiana - SoLa premiere
Oct 18th, 2010 at 10:00AM:
Baton Rouge, Louisiana – Last weekend I premiered my new documentary film about water and man in Louisiana – "SoLa, Louisiana Water Stories" – in the belly of the beast, in the heart of the state's capitol.
The showing was at the beautiful Manship Theater and drew a crowd of Louisiana's environmental cognoscenti, from activists to lawyers, politicians to fishermen. After ...Louisiana to host new endurance race ending at Mardis Gras
Sep 28th, 2010 at 8:30AM: Some people will do anything to get to a party. Case in point, the endurance runners who will be taking part in the inaugural Rouge-Orleans Ultramarathon scheduled to take place in Louisiana on March 4-6, 2011. The race also happens to fall on the same weekend as Mardi Gras, which has prompted race organizers to adopt the slogan "come to run, stay to party."
The race is a true test of endurance ...The best places in the world to smoke a cigar
Aug 19th, 2010 at 3:35PM: Smoking a cigar the correct way demands a critical mix of solitude, contemplation, and most important, awareness of surroundings. All other things become subservient to the act of observing and evaluating. With this game plan in play, the smoker's post-ignition environs take on as much importance as the flavor, taste, and draw of the tobacco. Here is one man's list of the top ten places in the ...Photo of the day (8.13.10)
Aug 13th, 2010 at 6:00PM:
Old Gadling hand Anna Brones snapped this image in New Orleans, catching a fragment of the 2009 campaign to draft Brad Pitt to run for Mayor of New Orleans. Pitt failed to take the bait, unlike another celebrity, Wyclef Jean, who is currently running for the job of President of Haiti. Jean recently announced his intention to run for Haiti's top office. He has been hit by scathing yet fair ...From the Shores of Louisiana -- Protesting to lift the drilling ban
Aug 13th, 2010 at 9:15AM: Lafayette, Louisiana -- Last month's Rally for the Economy in Lafayette, Louisiana, went largely unnoticed outside the state, though 11,000 vociferous oil workers, their supporters and the elected political elite of the state showed up and shouted to the rooftop about their concerns over the continuing moratorium on deepwater oil drilling.
The Cajundome next to the campus of Louisiana ...From the Shores of Louisiana -- Turtle rescue!
Aug 11th, 2010 at 9:30AM:
Along the beaches of the Florida panhandle and Alabama there is a massive rescue effort underway involving butter knives and forks, tricked-out Styrofoam coolers and specially-rigged FedEx trucks.
The job is to scoop 70,000 mostly loggerhead sea turtle eggs out of the sand (very carefully, using kitchen utensils among other tools) before the hatchlings can swim out into the Gulf where they ...From the Shores of Louisiana: Dredging
Aug 2nd, 2010 at 10:00AM: Chandeleur Islands, Louisiana -- The French-born helicopter pilot zooming low over the Gulf is focused on two things: Whether he can find more fuel in Venice and whether or not the brown streaking we're seeing north of the Chandeleur Islands is oil or just the transition of muddy Mississippi River water mixing with salt water.
It's his first day flying out of Plaquemines Parish and, with maps ...From the Shores of Louisiana -- Call in the navy!
Jul 29th, 2010 at 10:31AM:
Cat Island, Louisiana -- During the past eleven weeks I've been on and around the edges of Barataria Bay for many days. This is ground-zero for the oil mess clean-up in southern Louisiana, a 650-square-mile jigsaw puzzle of marshes and wetlands where hundreds of workers have been sweating for weeks, valiantly attempting to wipe, absorb and suck up the oil which has penetrated it deeply.
If ...From the Shores of Louisiana -- Crane Rescue
Jul 27th, 2010 at 10:00AM:
Barataria Bay, Louisiana – 6:50 a.m.: We'd been on the water for more than two hours already and had seen a particularly haunting sunrise thanks to a partial lunar eclipse by the time we reached the edge of Cat Island.
Marsh grass covers the muddy island, located about fifteen miles west of Sulphur Grove in Plaquemine Parish. The island is nearly identical to a couple hundred other ...The animals that helped win World War Two
Jul 20th, 2010 at 12:30PM:
Animals have always been used in war, but historians tend to dismiss them as living equipment and say little about their experiences. A new exhibition at The National World War II Museum in New Orleans seeks to right that imbalance by focusing on the war effort of animals on both sides of the conflict.
Loyal Forces: Animals in WWII features life-sized mannequins of horses and mules with ...From the shores of Louisiana: a peek inside of the oil industry
Jul 20th, 2010 at 11:00AM:
Morgan City, Louisiana – Driving old Highway 90 paralleling the Gulf Coast under a vast, super-heated blue sky filled with cumulus it's almost possible to forget the horror that continues to seethe beneath the nearby sea.
But the manmade scenery that lines the road – warehouse buildings, one after another, parking lots filled with pick-up trucks and SUVs -- brings me right back ...
