Louisiana Is Losing Ground

Using historical aerial imagery from NASA together with USGS, ProPublica has set together an impressive interactive mapped visualization of the resultant of climate alter together with fossil oil & gas exploration on the terra firma of Louisiana.

Southern Louisiana is losing xvi foursquare miles a twelvemonth to the Gulf of Mexico. At the oculus of ProPublica's map, Losing Ground, is a serial of timeline visualizations of historical aerial imagery. These timelines permit y'all to expose the loss of terra firma inward Louisiana past times comparison introduce twenty-four hours aerial imagery amongst aerial imagery going dorsum to the 1930's.

For example, hither is the surface area of Venice together with West Bay every minute it looked inward 1932:


Here's how the same surface area looks today:


Accompanying the aerial imagery are a serial of interviews of people living together with working inward the affected areas. These interviews are supported past times well files together with photos. In combination the audio, photos, interviews together with aerial imagery of Louisiana's terra firma loss furnish a powerful written report into this ongoing environmental disaster.