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A brief summary on the primary drivers of Land Loss in the Mississippi Delta.
The Mississippi River Delta and coastal Louisiana are disappearing at an astonishing rate: a football field of wetlands vanishes into open water every 100 minutes. Since the 1930s, Louisiana has lost over 2,000 square miles of land, an area roughly the size of Delaware.
The Mississippi River Delta, showing the sediment plumes from the Mississippi and Atchafalaya Rivers, 2001. The modern Mississippi River Delta formed over the last approximately 4,500 years as the Mississippi River deposited sand, clay and silt along its banks and in adjacent basins.
Delta under Pressure. NASA Earth observations and models show increased flooded area over the Delta. Land loss and flooding have direct impacts on people, their livelihoods, as well as on the Delta ecosystem and natural resources.
6 Μαρ 2023 · A balanced sediment budget for the Mississippi River Delta shows that the impact of levees and resource extraction have been the dominant drivers of land loss within Barataria Basin.
1 Μαρ 2023 · The Mississippi River Delta in coastal Louisiana has suffered large-scale land loss during the historic period and is representative of a global phenomenon where low-elevation deltaic coasts are increasingly at risk because of disrupted sediment supply and accelerated global sea-level rise.
1 Ιαν 2021 · A major national and state objective has become the restoration of the Mississippi River Delta that is threatened by subsidence, flooding, storm surges, compaction, oil extraction and gas...
