New Orleans faces a future its levees may not be able to buy its way out of

A Nature Sustainability study argues that New Orleans should start packing its bags as rising seas, sinking land, and disappearing wetlands increase the city's risk.

Studies confirm what Hurricane Katrina taught us. New Orleans already has a fascinating and entertaining system of levees and defenses to keep a city that lies more than occasionally below the water table somewhat inhabitable. - Read the rest

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