Teeming with life, the Mississippi’s marshes could all look like this (Image: James P. Blair/NGS) Grand plans for eco-engineering
Editorial: Biodiversity trumps ‘nature’ in the Gulf
The bays and bayous of coastal Louisiana were in trouble even before the Deepwater Horizon disaster. How far should we go to return them to their former glory?
STANDING knee-deep in the waters of Bay Jimmy in south-eastern Louisiana, Daniel Deocampo pours a bucket of clay mixed with seawater into the marsh. Oil swirls around our legs and the air reeks of burnt petroleum. With oil from BP’s Deepwater Horizon spill sitting in…
