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JANUARY 19, 2022

A worrying superbug fungus has been spotted in Louisiana for the first time. On Tuesday, hospital officials reported that at least two patients at the University Medical Center in New Orleans had contracted Candida auris , a deadly yeast often resistant to antifungals that can spread quickly in hospitals. The cases… Read more.

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APRIL 11, 2022

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is investigating two Louisiana agencies for alleged discrimination against predominantly Black communities in a part of the Bayou State known as “Cancer Alley.” Read more.

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JUNE 26, 2020

Two Louisiana environmental justice activists face up to 15 years in prison for—wait for it—delivering boxes of plastic to oil and gas lobbyists. Anne Rolfes and Kate McIntosh, who work with the Louisiana Bucket Brigade, turned themselves into the cops on Thursday and were handcuffed and brought from a Baton Rouge… Read more.

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APRIL 19, 2021

A brave Louisiana legislator has a plan to protect poor, helpless fossil fuels by offering up his state as a safe space where they can be dug up, refined, and burned free from judgment (and government regulation). Read more.

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OCTOBER 24, 2020

The Louisiana National Guard stepped in to thwart a series of cyberattacks after several government offices across the state were targeted in recent weeks, according to a Friday Reuters report. Read more.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards is one of a number of officials attending the United Nations climate conference in Glasgow. As with most people at the conference, known as COP26, he was there to tout his commitment to a safe climate. Read more.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2021

On Monday night, the temperature in Lake Charles, Louisiana dipped to 14 degrees Fahrenheit (7.8 degrees Celsius), more than 30 degrees Fahrenheit (17.2 degrees Celsius) below average. Hours later, just before the sun rose on Tuesday morning, the city’s power supply abruptly shut off , taking the six local water plants… Read more.

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AUGUST 29, 2021

Hurricane Ida has officially made landfall in Louisiana. There’s never a good time for one of the worst storms to ever strike the state to make landfall, but now is a particularly nightmarish moment. Read more.

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OCTOBER 21, 2021

IRVINE, CA, October 21, 2021 – EON Reality, the global leader in Augmented and Virtual Reality-based knowledge and skills transfer for industry and education, announces a new partnership with the University of Louisiana for an EON-XR rollout across their campus. ” Dan Lejerskar Founder of EON Reality. About EON Reality.

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JULY 31, 2023

Superstar rapper Drake kicked off his It’s All a Blur Tour last month, in New Orleans, Louisiana. Drizzy’s latest tour will leave you in tears, whether you like it or not.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Hurricane Ida slammed into the Gulf Coast this weekend, but we’re still getting a handle on the damages from the storm. While New Orleans made it through the storm without much flooding (though the city is suffering from widespread power outages and sewage problems), other parishes around the city were hit hard. Read more.

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AUGUST 29, 2021

All of New Orleans lost power Sunday night after Hurricane Ida brought down eight transmission lines that deliver electricity to the city, according to a new report from Nola.com. Everyone in Orleans parish, home to New Orleans, lost power around 7:15 p.m. local time, 8:15 p.m. ET, and it’s not clear when power might… Read more.

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OCTOBER 5, 2017

“It’s made of words and stories and it’s a big kind of edifice covered with language and drawings,” Anderson said in an interview with Louisiana Channel. It debuted this August at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebæk, Denmark. Image Credit: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art. and Europe.

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APRIL 21, 2021

We’re sure to learn more in the days leading up to the launch of ‘Aftershocks’, but for now the studio has tossed out a trailer which shows some fresh action centering around a mysteriously supply cache from the Louisiana National Guard.

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AUGUST 27, 2020

With the storm came more than 9 feet of storm surge in parts of Louisiana. Hurricane Laura tied the strongest storm to hit Louisiana on record,… Read more. Hurricane Laura slammed into the Gulf Coast Wednesday night with winds making it nearly a Category 5 storm upon making landfall. This level of water is incomprehensible.

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MAY 6, 2022

A glass recycling and shoreline restoration project in New Orleans was inspired by a bottle of wine. Cofounders Franziska Trautmann and Max Steitz met as students at Tulane University. One night, over drinks, they lamented about how their wine bottle would just end up in the trash, because New Orleans does not recycle… Read more.

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OCTOBER 27, 2020

The storm is expected to reach Louisiana by Wednesday and batter a state that’s spent much too much time in the bullseye this year. By Tuesday afternoon, we should have Hurricane Zeta, the twelfth hurricane of the 2020 season. Read more.

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AUGUST 29, 2021

Hurricane Ida made landfall in Louisiana on Sunday as a powerful Category 4 storm, dumping flooding rain whipped by sustained winds of more than 150 mph (241 kph). Next comes the aftermath. Read more.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Since Sunday, she’s been hard at work gathering data on the damage Hurricane Ida wrought in her corner of southeast Louisiana. Christine Verdin, 62, serves on the recovery committee for the Pointe-au-Chien Indian Tribe, of which she is a member. Read more.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Satellite images taken before and after Hurricane Ida swept through Louisiana this week are showcasing the upsetting extent to which people have suffered without power in New Orleans. Read more.

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AUGUST 31, 2021

You quite literally can’t write this joke: Exxon, one of the companies most responsible for the climate crisis, tweeted Monday that it was keeping people in Louisiana and the Gulf Coast affected by Hurricane Ida in its “thoughts and prayers.” Wow, where have we heard that phrase before ? Read more.

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AUGUST 24, 2022

A team of scientists has determined that a large mound on the campus of Louisiana State University is the oldest known human-made structure in the Americas, according to a paper published in the American Journal of Science. Read more.

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AUGUST 27, 2020

Early this morning, Hurricane Laura made landfall near Cameron, Louisiana, battering the region with winds up to 150 mph. There is already one confirmed fatality , and Louisiana Gov. While there is already extensive damage in Louisiana, Laura… Read more.

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AUGUST 13, 2021

The city of New Orleans, Louisiana will require all customers at bars, restaurants, stadiums, concerts, and other indoor venues to show their proof of vaccination or a negative covid-19 test taken within 72 hours in order to gain admittance, according to Mayor LaToya Cantrell who made the announcement at a press… Read more.

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JUNE 14, 2021

Louisiana’s looking out to protect its pipelines and chemical plants from drone, raising the specter of nefarious climate protesters to pass the legislation. But the main pilots they’ve busted so far appear to be literal children. Read more.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Cedric Richmond, a Louisiana Democrat, will reportedly serve as director of the Office of Public Engagement, Bloomberg reported on Monday evening. President-elect Joe Biden is beginning to fill top positions for his administration, including sending a climate signal. According to Politico , that role will include… Read more.

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OCTOBER 22, 2021

Garret Graves of Louisiana , the ranking GOP member on the Select Committee on the Climate Crisis ; Rep. On Friday, the Washington Post reported a list of Republicans in Congress who will be attending United Nations climate talks in Glasgow later this month. Per the Post, the group includes Rep. John Curtis of Utah, who … Read more.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2021

Garret Graves of Louisiana, and Rep. GLASGOW, SCOTLAND — The Republican climate delegation has landed at the Glasgow climate talks. As 100,000 protesters took to the streets to demand radical, transformational change , Rep. Dan Crenshaw of Texas, Rep. John Curtis of Utah walked into the convention center where… Read more.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Hurricane Ida slammed into southeast Louisiana on the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina —and less than a year after two other hurricanes hit the region. The state is hardly alone. Read more.

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GizModo VR

OCTOBER 3, 2021

The adaptation of Charlaine Harris’ Southern Vampire Mysteries featured vampires and werewolves being sexy in Louisiana and was an extremely easy sell at the time. When True Blood first hit HBO in 2008, it came at just the right time. It’s hard to say if it was actually good , but it was certainly watchable enough for… Read more.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Earlier this week, residents of Louisiana and Texas who were just pounded by Hurricane Laura endured a heat index of 109 degrees Fahrenheit (42.8 degrees Celsius). This weekend, California is expected to see its second record-breaking heat wave in three weeks. That’s just the U.S. this week; nearly every corner of the… Read more.

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JULY 15, 2021

Seafloor scars from this gigantic wave have been spotted in seismic data taken in Louisiana, offering new insights into this catastrophic… Read more. The asteroid that killed off all non-avian dinosaurs made quite the splash when it hit the Yucatan Peninsula some 66 million years ago, generating a tsunami of epic proportions.

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OCTOBER 22, 2021

But in 2018, when Louisiana Gov. Sharon Lavigne won the 2021 Goldman Prize for environmental defenders this year. She never meant to become an activist, let alone the face of a key environmental justice fight in the U.S. John Bel Edwards announced that a company called Wanhua was set to build a new plastics plant in… Read more.

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AUGUST 31, 2021

A 71-year-old Louisiana man is presumed dead after an alligator lurking in Hurricane Ida’s floodwaters attacked him on Monday. Read more.

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AUGUST 31, 2021

Amid the human carnage that was wrought by Hurricane Ida this past weekend, the brutal rain and wind conditions that slammed the Louisiana coasts have left some awful infrastructural damage in their wake. Power grids were shattered. Buildings collapsed. And in the middle of it all, countless 911 calls failed to go… Read more.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

In the small town of Grosse Tête, Louisiana, a Bengal-Siberian hybrid tiger named Tony lived 17 wearisome years confined to a chain-linked, concrete-slabbed cage. His bloodline hailed from halfway across the planet, where tigers prowled as apex predators in the depths of Rajasthan’s subtropical jungles and Siberia’s… Read more.

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AUGUST 30, 2021

All eyes are rightfully on Louisiana and Mississippi, where more than 1 million are without power and the impacts of Ida are still becoming clear. Skies are clearing in the Gulf Coast as now-Tropical Storm Ida moves inland, but the danger from the storm is far from over. Here are some suggestions to help those in need Read more.

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