Science

The Environment and Health Council of Louisiana hosts a conference April 18 to highlight research under way on the health of the Gulf two years after the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. The daylong conference is at Nicholls State's Bollinger Memorial Student Union in Thibodaux, La.

A team of Texas biologists has found that some fish in Caddo Lake show signs of liver damage that may be linked to mercury pollution.

The National Institutes of Health is recruiting 55,000 people for a multi-decade study to learn about the human toll of the BP Oil Spill.