Sea levels along the U.S. Gulf Coast are rising much faster than predicted. For New Orleans, the surge threatens its natural hurricane protection, leaving the city and surrounding area much more vu...
It is estimated that 49% percent of Louisiana is bellow sea level.
Louisiana is not the only state that would be affected by such sea level rises, should they occur in future. A previous analysis by National Geographic in 2013 suggested that parts of New...
Sea levels around Louisiana are now rising over an inch every 2 years, and tidal flooding in some areas has increased 100% since 2000.
Louisiana is losing its coast at a rapid rate because of rising sea levels, development and sinking marshland. Officials are trying to rebuild those marshes and the wetlands, but much of...
Ten years ago, as news of the BP oil disaster reached Louisiana’s Grand Bayou Indian Village, Rosina Philippe dispatched her brother Maurice Phillips on a reconnaissance mission. Phillips pointed his flatboat toward the Gulf of Mexico and motored through a series of canals and inlets until he reached a fertile fishing ground called Bay Jimmy, eight miles from home. He returned with a passenger: a brown pelican, alive but slathered in petroleum. Philippe and her brother belong to the Atakapa-Ishak/Chawasha Tribe. They live in their ancestral v ...
In “Water’s Edge” Part 1.1, the state of Louisiana loses a football field of land every 90 minutes to coastal erosion and sea level rise. For the communities in southeast Louisiana, flooding and la...
A special report from The Times-Picayune | The Advocate examines Louisiana's perilous future in a time of rising seas and intensifying storms.
New technology has revealed that southeast Louisiana is sinking faster than previously known. Combined with rising seas due to global warming, a leading scientist says waters will rise "at least fo...
The water could rise twice as fast along parts of Louisiana and the rest of the Gulf Coast.... the sea level rises four feet. Summing it up, he said, "25 percent of your major roadways...