From NPR.

New Orleans should plan to move its residents out of the city due to climate change.

A new study published in the Nature Sustainability journal presents evidence that suggests historically high sea level rise will leave the city completely surrounded by open water — perhaps by the end of the century.

NPR’s Leila Fadel asked Jesse Keenan, director of the Center on Climate Change and Urbanism at Tulane University, and one of the study’s co-authors, what lessons it holds for other places in the U.S.