On a hot Friday morning, the sun beat down on volunteers gathered at the edge of the water in southern Plaquemines Parish. They passed heavy sacks of oyster shells to each other down a line. “I feel ...

Jonathan Phillips says he thinks about Louisiana’s disappearing coastline every day. As a commercial fisherman and member of the Atakapa-Ishak/Chawasha tribe, he sees water levels rising in ...

Jonathan Phillips says he thinks about Louisiana's disappearing coastline every day. As a commercial fisherman and member of the Atakapa-Ishak/Chawasha tribe, he sees water levels rising in ...

Dead lemon trees stick out of the ground of a sacred mound in Adams Bay in Louisiana on Sept. 20th, 2024. The mound is slowly disappearing because of coastal land loss. Billowy, Gulf clouds fill the ...

GRAND BAYOU, La. (WVUE) - For centuries, the people of Grand Bayou—a remote, boat-accessible village west of the Mississippi River—have called the disappearing coastline of Plaquemines Parish home.

T his story is part of the Pulitzer Center’s nationwide Connected Coastlines reporting initiative. ROSINA PHILIPPE EXPERTLY steers a small metal boat through the brackish bayou. It’s a chilly February ...