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Land Loss in Coastal Louisiana Since 1932
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- 06 April 2013 | By NOAA | 222
Every year, 25-35 square miles of land off the coast of Louisiana—an area larger than Manhattan–disappears into the water due to a combination of subsidence (soil settling) and global sea level rise. The maps above show how much land has been lost to the Gulf of Mexico in the past 80 years.
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