Rising Sea Levels Endanger Louisiana Coast⁠⠀ _⁠⠀ According to researchers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Louisiana's combination of rising waters and sinking land give it one of the highest rates of relative sea level rise on the planet. Since the 1930s, Louisiana has lost over 2,000 square miles of land and wetlands, an area roughly the size of Delaware. In the past 30 years, as subsidence continues and the effects of climate change increase, Louisiana has been losing its coastal landscape at the rate of almost a football fields worth of land every hour. ⁠⠀ _⁠⠀ (Image 1-2) An abandoned boat sits amid dead cypress trees in coastal water. (Image 2-3) Longtime shrimper Acy Cooper keeps an eye on his nets as he begins a 12 hour plus overnight shift of shrimping off the coast of Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana. (Image 3-4) A boat moves through the marshland in Lake Borgne.⁠ (Image 5-6) A memorial cross for the victims of Hurricane Katrina stands in the water n...