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Climate change, shifting populations, and infrastructure development in risky areas compound future flood loss risk. By Kimberly M. S. Cartier Residents of New Orleans are no strangers to floods and the losses that follow. From Katrina in 2005 to Ida in 2021, Gulf Coast hurricanes have cost the people of New Orleans hundreds of billions of dollars over […]
