The 700-member Pointe-au-Chien indian tribe south of Houma, Louisiana was one of the first communities to take a direct hit from the BP oil spill. For them, the disaster is ongoing—and part of a larger threat to their ancestral home. Produced by Barry Yeoman and Richard Ziglar for KRVS, Lafayette, Louisiana, and the Louisiana Public […]
‘The Land is Washing Back to the Sea’
Louisiana wetlands are disappearing at a rate of up to 25 square miles per year — and taking centuries-old communities with them. Part 7 of Losing Louisiana, a series originally published in onEarth. ON MY MAP, LAKE CHIEN is tiny, jutting cove-like into the bottom of Louisiana. It looks like the top of a four-tiered snowman, connected […]
