When they couldn't put out a print edition for two days, they used their site Nola.com to get stories and images out of the sinking city.

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He walked there in the afternoons, reciting to himself and memorising, until he could watch the sinking sun igniting the windows of the city.

ECONOMIST: Samuel Menashe, a New York poet, died on August 22nd, aged 85

The program kicks off with environmental consultant Gerardo Pandal from Mexico City talking about the sinking pueblo and the 24-hour broadcast will end with Gore in the Big Apple urging viewers to take action.

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The decision was revealed last April in a bulletin from the department and is now sinking in as yoga studios across the city prepare their taxes.

WSJ: Deep Breaths as Yogis Face New Tax

Scientists say the city is steadily sinking into the mud of the Mississippi Delta, making it even more vulnerable to the next super-storm, or the one after.

BBC: NEWS | Americas | One year on: Katrina's legacy

The companies behind "Uncle Roy All Round" say the game changes the way the players interact with the city, which sounds enlightening and all that but we have a sinking suspicion that this hunt for the phantom Roy will turh out a little more like "Waiting for Godot".

ENGADGET: Hunting for Uncle Roy

For example, the nearby community of Kenner, which is built on wetlands that have been drained, is sinking about three-times faster than the rest of the city.

NPR: Satellite Imagery Shows a Sinking New Orleans

Newspapers were being founded and sinking all the time in Rio, then a small but expanding city.

ECONOMIST: Roberto Marinho

Italy's city of canals has been sinking for about a millennium, but in the past century the pace has accelerated rapidly.

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