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As La. Coast Recedes, Battle Rages Over Who Should Pay

2014-04-16 09:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

National Public Radio: Louisiana's coast is disappearing at the rate of about a football field an hour. Since the 1930s, the Gulf of Mexico has swallowed up an area the size of Delaware. You can see the water encroaching in Delacroix in St. Bernard Parish, less than an hour southeast of New Orleans. Here, a narrow crescent of land known locally as the "end of the world" is where the road abruptly comes to a dead end; in the distance, you see the tops of now-submerged trees. "It's hard to imagine if the coast continues...

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