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Last Chance
Times Picayune
March, 2007
It took the Mississippi River 6,000 years to build the Louisiana coast. It took man (and natural disasters) 75 years to destroy it. Experts agree we have 10 years to act before the problem is too big to solve.
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Losing Ground
Gannett News
October, 2003
The land is rapidly vanishing and the open water is growing here and throughout Louisiana's coastal wetlands, a nursery for a quarter of the nation's seafood, a critical supply link for a third of the country's energy and home of the rich culture of the Cajuns.
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Deep Trouble: Peril in the Gulf
Naples Daily News
September, 2003
The Gulf of Mexico is sick. A $700-million-a-year fishing industry is reeling. Red tide threatens to choke a $20-billion-a-year tourism industry. Growth and pollution are snuffing out nurseries that sustain sea-life. Famous coral reefs in the Florida Keys are devastated. The coastline is sinking. The list goes on.
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City in a Bowl
NOW
September, 2002
When travelers rate their favorite cities around the world, they put New Orleans near the top of the list... Cajun culture... The Mississippi...The French Quarter. But a scientist named Joe Suhayda sees a more troubling vision of this city.
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Losing Ground
NOW
September, 2002
The Mississippi River delta is disappearing. One of America's most vibrant and productive ecological regions is slipping into the Gulf of Mexico at an alarming rate. Every year, a chunk of land nearly as big as Manhattan crumbles and washes away.
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Nature's Revenge: Louisiana's Vanishing Wetlands
National Public Radio
September, 2002
Every year, a chunk of land almost the size of Manhattan turns into open water in Louisiana. After decades of ignoring warnings from scientists and environmentalists, the state's business leaders are taking notice because they say this could doom the state's economy and threaten vital American industries like seafood, gas, and oil.
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Washing Away
Times Picayune
June, 2002
It's only a matter of time before South Louisiana takes a direct hit from a major hurricane. Billions have been spent to protect us, but we grow more vulnerable every day." Read the five-part series printed in The Times-Picayune in June 2002.
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Times Picayune
March, 1996
The New Orleans Times-Picayune series entitled "Oceans of Trouble", including an examination of coastal erosion in Louisiana, has won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in Journalism and the 1996 Sigma Delta Chi award for Public Service in Journalism. The eight-day series "showed the impact on lives, economies, the environment and the future," wrote the judges.
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