Living on Earth: Levees along the Mississippi river and years of oil and gas extraction have caused dramatic erosion and subsidence in Louisiana. Bob Marshall, a reporter with the New Orleans news-site The Lens, discusses the new interactive project he developed with ProPublica with host Steve Curwood and explains how the vanishing land could displace thousands of people if nothing changes.
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CURWOOD: Louisiana is growing smaller and smaller, thanks to changes in the Mississippi delta that were designed...