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Try Me a River
Mississippi River may be redirected to build Louisiana wetlands |
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20 Sep 2006 |
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| Try Me a River Mississippi River may be redirected to build Louisiana wetlands How to protect and restore the Louisiana coast? A group of researchers has a crazy idea that just might work: shift the course of the Mississippi River. Every half hour or so, the Mississippi steals a football-field-sized chunk of soil from Louisiana's coastal wetlands; it dumps 120 million tons of would-be hurrican ... |
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| Topics: Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana, Mississippi River, news, wetlands (all these topics) |
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