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GRAND ISLE, LA - AUGUST 24: As a storm moves in, a dead oak tree stands in the marsh along Louisiana Highway 1 on August 24, 2019 in Grand Isle, Louisiana. Many oak and cypress trees in coastal Louisiana have died due to a combination of the saltwater intrusion and subsidence. According to researchers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Louisiana's combination of rising waters and sinking land give it one of the highest rates of relative sea level rise on the planet. Since the 1930s, Louisiana has lost over 2,000 square miles of land and wetlands, an area roughly the size of Delaware. In the past 30 years, as subsidence continues and the effects of climate change increase, Louisiana has been losing its coastal landscape at the rate of almost a football fields worth of land every hour.

Collection: Getty Images
Country: USA
Year: 2019
Reference: 1163780417

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