Louisiana is currently losing around a football field's worth of land every hour to the encroaching ocean. The erosion is due to an array of factors, from an ill-conceived historic levee system, the legacy of oil and gas drilling and, of course, the area's susceptibility to hurricanes.VICE News travels to the site of one of the largest man-made environmental and economic disasters in US history to see what can be done as the situation deteriorates at an exponential rate.Watch: The Recovery That Wasn't: Two Years Since Hurricane SandyRead: Ten Years After Katrina: Police Brutality Continues, Justice Still Not Served, Residents Say
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Louisiana’s Coastal Crisis (Trailer)
Coming soon: Ten years after Hurricane Katrina, VICE News investigates what's behind Louisiana's vanishing coastline.