As Louisiana’s coast washes away, the dead are the first to go

Cemeteries across coastal Louisiana face destruction due to hurricanes and extremely rapid land loss, the equivalent of one American football field per hour [Delaney Nolan/Al Jazeera]

Louisiana, United States – Down in Cameron Parish, a storm-wracked region low on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, Patrick Hebert has a talent for finding the dead.

Since 2005, he has found hundreds of lost caskets – stuck on levees and fences, tangled in brush or half-buried in marsh mud.