Mouth of Mississippi River. Louisiana wetlands are disappearing at the rate of one football field sized area every 30 minutes. Captions and Photo source: ©© Green Fire Productions
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The mouth of the Mississippi River should be moved north to Port Sulphur or English Turn and communities south of those points eventually will have to be abandoned if other parts of southeast Louisiana are to have a future into the next century.
Those were among the more startling recommendations proposed by the winning teams of coastal engineering and sustainability experts from around the world who took part in Changing Course, a design competition sponsored by Louisiana that kicked off in 2013…
Mississippi River Mouth Must Be Abandoned to Save New Orleans from Next Hurricane, Scientific American (08-23-2015)
Extensive studies done after Katrina verified what lifelong residents of southeastern Louisiana already knew: Unless the rapidly disappearing wetlands are made healthy again, restoring the natural defense, New Orleans will soon lay naked against the sea…
Gulf Eats Away at Coast Outside Levee-Protected New Orleans, AP (08-14-2015)
Lost Louisiana: The Race to Reclaim Vanished Land Back From The Sea, Guardian UK (10-15-2014)
Louisiana has lost nearly 1,900 square miles of land over the past 80 years – a disappearing act that claims on average a football field an hour. Now, World’s fastest submerging state is looking to nature in an ambitious plan to turn back the tide…
