je.st
news
Losing ground in Louisiana
2014-09-21 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
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. Transcript CURWOOD: Louisiana is growing smaller and smaller, thanks to changes in the Mississippi delta that were designed...
Tags: ground
louisiana
losing
losing ground
Category:Electronics and Electrical