Many wetlands are disappearing, but Louisiana’s “accidental” Wax Lake Delta is growing—and informing coastal restoration ...

Louisiana's coastal wetlands make up about 40% of all coastal marshes in the United States, according to a series of reports from the U.S. Geological Survey conducted throughout the 1980s and ...

Researchers have found geological evidence ... is the primary cause of land loss. He points to more than 35,000 canals that have lacerated Louisiana’s coastal wetlands, with massive amounts ...

Louisiana’s coastal parishes have lost more than 2,000 square miles (5,180 square kilometers) of land over the past century, according to the U.S. Geological ... loss in Louisiana, rather than being ...

Yet the lawsuit held the company responsible for exacerbating and accelerating land loss in Louisiana, rather than being its sole cause. Chevron also challenged the costly wetlands restoration ...

By Adeel Hassan A jury in Louisiana has ruled that Chevron must ... which had sought $2.6 billion in damages, argued that wetland loss and pollution were directly linked to the oil and gas work.

The report also found that the rate of wetland loss increased ... from the U.S. Geological Survey conducted throughout the 1980s and finished in 1996, which found that “wetlands once covered more than ...

Opposing views among environmental groups and coastal scientists in Louisiana have spurred intense debates over the use of natural wetlands for wastewater treatment.

Wetlands are seen from a helicopter on the Louisiana coast on July 10, 2010. Credit: AP/Patrick Semansky The jury awarded $575 million to compensate for land loss ... to the U.S. Geological ...