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We Must Decrease Our Gustav Oil platforms off La. fare OK under hurricane; wetlands, not so much		02 Sep 2008	News
Posted at 10:39 AM on 02 Sep 2008 Louisiana's people and property fared better under Hurricane Gustav than had been feared, but acres of valuable wetlands were likely irrevocably destroyed. "The last thing on anyone's mind during a hurricane is how the wetlands are going to do," says activist Aaron Giles. But since happy and healthy wetlands act as storm barriers, "wetlands are a criti ...
Topics: energy, George Bush, habitat loss, Louisiana, news, oil and gas drilling, severe weather, wetlands (all these topics)

Let My River Go Unleashing Mississippi River could be key to restoring Louisiana wetlands		01 May 2007	Daily Grist
Let My River Go Unleashing Mississippi River could be key to restoring Louisiana wetlands Painfully aware that their state is sinking, Louisiana politicians are pushing a $50 billion plan to fight wetlands erosion by unleashing the Mississippi River. The river built much of the southeastern part of the state over time, through sediment deposits. But levees and other restraints have kept it on an ...
Topics: Louisiana, Mississippi, Mississippi River, news, wetlands (all these topics)

Nothing to Fear But Corps Itself U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' decisions continue to befuddle		14 Mar 2007	Daily Grist
Nothing to Fear But Corps Itself U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' decisions continue to befuddle Let it not be said that Hurricane Katrina's lessons didn't sink in. For example, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers learned that it's good to look prepared, even if you aren't -- so it (apparently knowingly) installed 34 defective pumps in New Orleans before the 2006 hurricane season. The season was mild, so the C ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, Louisiana, news, wetlands (all these topics)

Try Me a River Mississippi River may be redirected to build Louisiana wetlands		20 Sep 2006	Daily Grist
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 ...
Topics: Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana, Mississippi River, news, wetlands (all these topics)

Marsh Madness Gloomy prospects for Louisiana's wetlands, says a new report		10 Nov 2005	Daily Grist
Marsh Madness Gloomy prospects for Louisiana's wetlands, says a new report Louisiana's coastal marshes are screwed. That's the cheery news from an expert panel convened last year by the National Academy of Sciences. In a report released yesterday, the panel assessed a 10-year wetlands-restoration plan developed by the Army Corps of Engineers, concluding that the four credible parts of the five-part plan would slow coastal wetland ...
Topics: Louisiana, news, wetlands (all these topics)

System of a Drown The long history of political bungling that sank New Orleans		10 Oct 2005	Daily Grist
System of a Drown The long history of political bungling that sank New Orleans In "The Slow Drowning of New Orleans," The Washington Post's Michael Grunwald and Susan B. Glasser trace the centuries-long history of shortsighted greed and political expediency that left the Crescent City vulnerable to disaster. In recent decades, Louisiana has received more Army Corps of Engineers funding than any ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, Louisiana, news, wetlands (all these topics)

Gulf Toast Woods, wetlands, and marine ecosystems hit hard by storm, pollution		21 Sep 2005	Daily Grist
Gulf Toast Woods, wetlands, and marine ecosystems hit hard by storm, pollution The Gulf Coast's estuaries, wetlands, and cypress swamps are hurting in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. The storm damaged 25 national wildlife refuges, and recovery costs are expected to be at least $93 million -- about a quarter of the federal refuge budget. In Mississippi's Noxubee refuge, pine trees crucial ...
Topics: Louisiana, Mississippi, news, oceans, toxics, wetlands, wildlife (all these topics)

The Coastest With the Leastest Coastal-ecology degradation contributed to Katrina's destructive force		02 Sep 2005	Daily Grist
The Coastest With the Leastest Coastal-ecology degradation contributed to Katrina's destructive force Far from being solely a "natural" disaster, Hurricane Katrina's impact was compounded by human alterations of the Gulf Coast ecology. Complex levee and canal systems built to protect New Orleans from being flooded by the Mississippi River, and to improve the river as a shipping channel, have also preve ...
Topics: Coastal Erosion, Louisiana, news, wetlands (all these topics)

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