A NOAA-supported scientific team led by LSU Scientist, Nancy Rabalais, PhD, announced in a press release this week that the Gulf of America hypoxic ‘dead zone’ — an area of low to no…
Representatives Mike Ezell (R-MS) and Troy A. Carter, Sr. (D-LA) led a letter with four other Members of Congress to the Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development asking them to provide at least $7.5 million for the Lower Mississippi River Comprehensive Management Study (LMRCMS) in the next fiscal year.
The Mississippi Sound Coalition extends heartfelt appreciation to Senator Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), for his questions about the Bonnet Carré Spillway at a Senate confirmation hearing for President Trump’s nominee to serve as Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works, Adam Telle.
On April 3, 2025, the Mississippi Sound Coalition (MSSC) provided powerful and insightful new commentary to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The Coalition prepared the document linked below in response to the Corps’ invitation for comments on the occasion of the Mississippi River Commission’s annual high water inspection trip.
1926, my grandfather, a fisherman by trade, began ferrying locals and tourists out to the Mississippi islands in the Gulf of Mexico on a converted wood oyster schooner. Nearly 100 years later, using my family’s hundred-foot passenger ferry, I’ve continued the business of transporting people across the shallow, brackish Mississippi Sound out to the emerald-green waters of the Gulf Islands National Seashore.
On April 3, 2025, the Mississippi Sound Coalition (MSSC) provided powerful and insightful new commentary to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The Coalition prepared the document linked below in response to the Corps’ invitation for comments on the occasion of the Mississippi River Commission’s annual high water inspection trip.
Recent articles reported on a study from Texas A&M University that included an alarming finding: fentanyl and other drugs have been found in bottlenose dolphins in the Mississippi Sound and other parts of the Gulf of Mexico.
The Mississippi Sound Coalition (MSSC) and the EEECHO Organization (Education, Environment, Economics, Climate and Health) held a joint event at the Almanett in Gulfport, Mississippi on Thursday, Oct. 24, 2024. The event featured guest speaker Derrick Evans, a Gulfport native.
Louisiana State University researchers found a hypoxic “dead zone” east of the Mississippi River. A hypoxic dead zone is an area of water with low dissolved oxygen levels that cannot support aquatic life.
Ole Miss research into how manmade contaminations like freshwater from the Bonnet Carré Spillway killed off Gulf oysters in 2019 and why action must be taken to mitigate these events in the future.
This story is the fifth in a five-part series being shared by MSSC with permission called “Farm to Trouble,” a collaborative investigative reporting effort led by AG & Water Desk. The series takes…
This story is the fourth in a five-part series being shared by MSSC with permission called “Farm to Trouble,” a collaborative investigative reporting effort led by AG & Water Desk. The series takes a…