Southeast Louisiana is drowning, quickly.

The Mississippi Delta is losing a football field of land every 48 minutes. In the next 50 years it will lose an amount of land larger than Washington, D.C.

Coming tomorrow: In photographs, satellite imagery and interviews with longtime residents, ProPublica and The Lens explore why it’s happening and what we’ll all lose if we do nothing to stop it.

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