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NEW ORLEANS, LA - AUGUST 22: Wooden stilts for a home sit on a vacant lot along U.S. Route 90, on a narrow strip of land between Lake Catherine and Lake Pontchartrain on August 22, 2019 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Homes close to water along the coast are often built on stilts and raised to avoid flooding. 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 costal landscape at the rate of almost a football fields worth of land every hour.

Collection: Getty Images
Country: USA
City: New Orleans
Year: 2019
Reference: 1163306281

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