Louisiana has lost about 2,000 square miles of coastline in the last 80 years according to estimates — an area about the size of Delaware. Coastal erosion and seawater damage have a lot to do with it.

From their second-story vantage point, the governor and a fleet of scientists, politicians and philanthropists peered down at a basketball court-sized model of southeast Louisiana. In the top left ...

"Are you sure you want to go in there?" I said as I looked over the poison ivy, so green and inviting. I thought back to the last time my friend Barb had gotten involved with poison ivy, and her skin ...