Justin Nobel lives in New Orleans and is currently working on a book of stories from forgotten Southern towns.

Articles by Justin Nobel

After Deepwater Horizon, We Could Never Look at Offshore Drilling the Same

By Justin Nobel
April 13, 2020 — The spill was a wake-up call to the world about the risks to coastal economies and habitats.
From Audubon Magazine

Louisiana Is Restoring Its Barrier Islands to Defend Against Hurricanes and Rising Seas

By Justin Nobel
September 22, 2017 — Funds from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill are flowing into the state, financing unprecedented restoration work along its beleaguered coast—just in the nick of time.
Letter from Florida

Keeping a Rising Sea at Bay

By Justin Nobel
January 26, 2015 — From Miami to Key West, climate change is now in southeastern Florida.
Karen A Westphal_Green Heron

A Trove of Green Heron Nests Might Just Be Treasure

By Justin Nobel
July 16, 2014 — The discovery of a near-record number of nests in a Louisiana marsh could help scientists understand the elusive bird's seeming decline.

Oil spill update from the field: Thick oil still oozes beneath a forgotten stretch of Grand Isle Beach

By Justin Nobel
August 20, 2010

Oil spill update from the field: Inside BP's war room

By Justin Nobel
August 13, 2010

Oil spill update from the field: Welcome to the Crude Age

By Justin Nobel
August 06, 2010

Oil spill update from the field: Can rice fields help prevent Gulf birds from getting oiled?

By Justin Nobel
July 30, 2010

Oil spill update from the field: Oil highs, oil lows, oil blues

By Justin Nobel
July 23, 2010

Oil spill update from the field: Saving 8,000 sea turtles from an oily apocalypse

By Justin Nobel
July 16, 2010