Eva Tesfaye, WWNO

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The agency that helps farmers protect the environment lost a third of its staff last year. And more cuts could be coming.

Eva Tesfaye, WWNO

The Natural Resources Conservation Service is a federal agency that helps farmers protect soil and water and fight climate change. Advocates say those goals are in jeopardy.
‘A living laboratory’: An accidental delta taught Louisiana scientists how to rebuild wetlands

Elise Plunk, Louisiana Illuminator, Eva Tesfaye, WWNO

Amid the rapid erosion of Louisiana's coast, something hopeful is happening where the Atchafalaya River meets the Gulf. A flow of sediment from a decades-old river diversion has accidentally given birth to new wetlands.