While more flexible pipes has lessened the risk of houses exploding in the future, subsidence has placed most of New Orleans below sea level, and at increased risk from the next storm.

RICHARD HARRIS reporting: The city of New Orleans is largely below sea level today but it wasn't ... Ms. BURKETT: We analyzed the changes in elevation at roughly 300 benchmarks within the leveed ...

Some areas lie 15 feet below sea level. Though wetlands have shielded New Orleans from storm surges ... and hurricanes — combined with its low elevation and sinking terrain — could cause ...

Katrina makes landfall in Louisiana at 6:10 a.m., but the flooding of residential areas in greater New Orleans actually ... 12 feet above sea level; since these areas lie below sea level, their ...

But in many waterfront megacities the ground is now dropping up to 10 times faster than the sea level is rising, experts have warned. The sinking of cities such as Jakarta and New Orleans is ...

At one point 80 percent of New Orleans, where the average elevation is six feet below sea level, was flooded. Some places were submerged in 10 feet of water. Although most residents had ...

Those gravity measurements, with a pinch of math, could determine the elevation of an object as though sea level were directly below it ... of the river in say, New Orleans … knowing where ...

The biggest increases in induntation will occur after the first two metres of sea level rise, covering more than twice as much land as older elevation ... Amsterdam and New Orleans are modern ...