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March 25, 2019

Science

Louisiana’s Disappearing Coast

The state loses a football field’s worth of land every hour and a half. Now engineers are in a race to prevent it from sinking into oblivion.

Elizabeth Kolbert New Yorker Mar 2019 25min Permalink