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There’s an increasingly narrow strip of marshland in New Orleans that hardly anyone lives on, but without it, hundreds of thousands of people in Louisiana will face far greater risks from storms and floods.
The area, commonly called the New Orleans Land Bridge, separates Lake Pontchartrain from the Gulf of Mexico and stretches from New Orleans East to St. Tammany Parish, a distance of roughly 20 miles. Like much of Louisiana’s coast, it’s disappearing at a rapid rate…