Scientists have solved a long-standing mystery behind the source of a faint electrical current in trees - and it wasn't as hard as they thought.

Statewide, officials estimate that Hurricane Gustav alone destroyed more than 14 percent of crops and forestry, wiping out almost $543 million in farm and forestry revenue, including more than half of the cotton and sweet potato crops.

In nearly every respect, it's an iconic hit to Cajun country. The Atchafalaya Basin, stretching from the rolling prairies of Concordia Parish all the way to the coast just west of the Terrebonne Basin, is the largest swamp in the U.S.

1,500 people were housed in an abandoned Sam's Club warehouse that was not set up for habitation. Another problem were the arrests of evacuees after local officials on their own decided to run unauthorized background checks

Jindal said he has called on the schools to provide the meals through their contract food services because the Federal Emergency Management Agency has not been able to keep distribution centers properly stocked

When the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) begins smashing protons together this fall inside its 17-mile- (27-kilometer-) circumference underground particle racetrack near Geneva, Switzerland, it will usher in a new era not only of physics but also of computing

One home in the Tuscany Hills area of Lake Elsinore has all the marks of a foreclosure: a dead brown lawn, neglected flowerbeds and notices on the front door.<br /> <br /> And one more thing: bobcats.

A stork that's abundant in South America but rare farther north was spotted in Louisiana, one of fewer than a dozen sightings of the bird in the U.S.

Instead, Dr. Weiland, a mechanical engineering professor at the University of Pittsburgh, hopes to use tiny strips of plastic, undulating in the current of rivers and streams, to produce electricity.

Add simple metal salts to a beaker of water, apply a current, and watch the clean, green hydrogen bubble forth.