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A Special Report On The Oceans Rise Because Of Climate Change In Louisiana’s Atchafalaya And Terrebonne Basins

While oceans rise because of climate change, the world’s river deltas — home to seafood nurseries and more than 300 million people -- are sinking and shrinking. Originally reported By: By JANET McCONNAUGHEY Associated Press

A Special Report From The Associated Press On The Oceans Rise Because Of Climate Change In Louisiana's Atchafalaya And Terrebonne Basins

Erosion, sinking land, and sea rise from climate change have killed the Louisiana woods where a 41-year-old Native American chief played as a child. Not far away in the Mississippi River delta system, middle-school students can stand on islands that emerged when they were born.

Using state-of-the-art airborne systems that include boats and mud-slogging work on islands, making a $15 million, five-year study - investment on the areas adjacent to areas affected in the Louisiana Delta.

Collected data now allows researchers from NASA and nearly a dozen universities across the United States access to computer models that, when coupled with satellite information, will enable them to learn quickly which parts of the Louisianna Delta are dwindling. And the ones capable of being saved over those that are lost causes.

Lead scientist Marc Simard of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory perspective is straightforward -

"If you have to choose between saving an area and losing another instead of losing everything, you want to know where to put your resources to work to save the livelihood of people living there,"

Louisiana holds 40% of the nation's wetlands, but they're disappearing fast -- losing about 2,000 square miles (5,180 square kilometers) of the state since the 1930s. That's about 80% of the nation's wetland losses, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

Professor of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences at Louisianna Robert Twilley tells the Associated Press -

"I've been working here for 15 years, and one of the most challenging parts about working in a delta is you can only touch one tiny piece of it at any one time and understand one little bit of it."

NASA states on the Delta-X project website:

Mississippi River drains 41% of the continental United States, collecting 150 million tons (130 million metric tons) of sediment per year. But, mainly because of flood-prevention levees, most sediment shoots into the Gulf of Mexico rather than settling in wetlands.

"Deltas are the babies of the geological timescale. They are very young and fragile, in a delicate balance of sinking and growing,"

Louisiana is considering two projects that would divert Atchafalaya River sediment to build land in the Terrebonne Basin, but such decisions are more than a year away, says the state Coastal Restoration and Preservation Authority

Research planes and boats went out in March and April 2021 and will go out again in the fall for the second set of measurements. And two international satellites are scheduled for launch next year, each carrying one of the two kinds of radar used over Louisiana.

NASA reports these efforts are to gauge how plants affect water movement, long-wavelengths of L-band radar can measure water level changes in open and vegetated channels. And high-frequency Ka-band radar can measure the surface height of open water, showing how it slopes -- and where it's moving.

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NASA looks at Louisiana delta system, eyes global forecasts

MIKE ISLAND, La. (AP) — Erosion, sinking land and sea rise from climate change have killed the Louisiana woods where a 41-year-old Native Am

Originally reported By: By JANET McCONNAUGHEY Associated Press

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Babe, wake up, it’s more delta system lore.

She is tattling on you, she saw what you did bro-

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Little baby Ea! They’ll absolutely come bite its roommates’ ankles for their food. You just have to give her a graham cracker and he’ll go over to the corner and leave you alone while it eats-

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Decided I wanted to do Ea in my more current style. They have such eel energy to me-

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Impromptu baby Piter art! I missed drawing my little roughed up goofball. Context for his outfit is he really wants to be able to wear overalls, so his friends just cut the bottom half off and sewed up the sides a bit. And also some little leg warmers for his front legs-

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Dialogue from speech bubbles under the cut:

“Oh! Uhm, that’s ok!” “My sister says I’ll understand that when I get older.”

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Ea, the delta system’s Earth! Absolutely feral and, like, the worst person to ask for help, it will not happen-