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Louisiana Has to Deal With Land Subsidence and Sea Level Rise

"No other part of the coastal United States is sinking as fast as Louisiana, according to an updated assessment of sea level rise by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The state's coast is going under at a rate of about an inch every three years -- almost three feet over a century." - excerpt from article at nola.com.

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