Is this ‘age of the delta’ coming to an end? – Knowable Magazine
The land near the mouth of the Mississippi River is barely land at all. Muddy water forks into a labyrinth of pathways through a seemingly endless expanse of electric-green marsh grass, below skies thick with birds. Shrimp and crabs wriggle in the water below, and oak and cypress sprout from wet soils on higher grounds. Stretching for more than a hundred miles along the coast of Louisiana, this is one of the world’s largest, and most famous, river deltas…
Many mangrove restorations fail. Is there a better way? – knowable MAGAZINE
In the aftermath of the (Indian Ocean) tsunami (of 2004), some scientists reported that settlements behind swampy, shoreline mangrove forests often suffered less damage, and fewer casualties…
Many took the lesson to heart: Mangroves had to return.