{"id":82734,"date":"2026-05-06T09:21:50","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T13:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=82734"},"modified":"2026-05-06T09:21:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T13:21:50","slug":"claim-new-orleans-faces-point-of-no-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/claim-new-orleans-faces-point-of-no-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Claim: New Orleans Faces &#8216;Point Of No Return&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From Yahoo:<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">neath wrought-iron balconies and with the sound of jazz drifting through humid air, New Orleans has long stood as one of America&#8217;s most iconic cultural hubs. But now, the city&#8217;s future is under threat.\u00a0According to\u00a0<a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/04\/new-orleans-sea-levels-relocation-climate-crisis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:The Guardian;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-rapid_p=\"9\" data-y-link-id=\"0ppzbg40j99eec00ekgi\" data-v9y=\"1\">The Guardian<\/a>, researchers have warned that New Orleans may no longer be able to outlast the rising water around it, and its long-term survival may no longer be realistic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The\u00a0<a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41893-026-01820-z\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:study;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-rapid_p=\"10\" data-y-link-id=\"0qd17mc0l29npz1s98wn\" data-v9y=\"1\">study<\/a>, published in the journal Nature Sustainability, projected that New Orleans could be surrounded by the advancing Gulf of Mexico within just a few decades as sea levels rise and the land continues to sink.\u00a0&#8220;While climate mitigation should remain the first step to prevent the worst outcomes, coastal Louisiana has evidently already crossed the point of no return,&#8221; researchers wrote.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1778059310\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Claim: New Orleans Faces &#8216;Point Of No Return&#8217;\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Yahoo: neath wrought-iron balconies and with the sound of jazz drifting through humid air, New Orleans has long stood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-82734","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82735,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82734\/revisions\/82735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}