Losing ground in Louisiana

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......

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