(This content was created with the help of AI.) New Orleans, a city long defined by water, may ultimately have to give in to it.
A new perspectives paper in Nature Sustainability argues that southern Louisiana has crossed a “point of no return” on sea-level rise, and that planning to resettle people away from the New Orleans region should start now, per the Guardian.
The researchers say a combination of rising seas, sinking land, stronger hurricanes, and vanishing wetlands will likely leave New Orleans and Baton Rouge effectively cut off by the Gulf of Mexico within decades, not centuries…