Hotting Up: How Climate Change Could Swallow Louisiana’s Tabasco Island

The Guardian

As sea levels rise, marshes on Avery Island, Louisiana, home to Tabasco hot sauce, are retreating by about 30 feet a year; the land itself is sinking by about a third of an inch a year. The family of Tabasco’s founder is trying to figure out how to keep the business—which produces 750,000 bottles a day and sees thousands of visitors a year—running on the island.

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