A routine oil drilling operation on Louisiana's Lake Peigneur turns into an almost unbelievable catastrophe when the drill ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Virlie Langlinais was at her Louisiana home on Lake Peigneur when she saw the ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

On the morning of November 21, 1980, a Texaco oil rig team on Louisiana's Lake Peigneur noticed that their drill had seized up below the surface of the shallow lake. The twelve men were baffled when ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While Louisiana's largest lake, the Toledo Bend Reservoir, spans 1,200 miles of shoreline, the state's deepest lake only spans ...

Every morning, Louis Derise brews a cup of coffee and steps outside to savor the beauty of a lake no longer littered with the pilings from abandoned wellheads and platforms. “That’s my favorite part ...

The Miraculous Vanishing of Lake Peigneur: The Real True Story of a Lake That Disappeared by Allan Wolf and Jose Pimienta is a new nonfiction middle grade graphic novel. It tells the story of "the ...

Tensions appear to have cooled between some Lake Peigneur residents and the company that has massive natural gas storage caverns in scoured out salt domes under the Iberia Parish lake. Jefferson ...

LAKE PEIGNEUR, LA (WAFB) - Residents who live in Lake Peigneur in Iberia Parish are worried active bubbling on the lake near their homes could be putting their lives in danger. "They haven't told us ...