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Moving a mountain? Try moving a river

September 19, 2006

Moving the MississippiThere is an excellent piece in the New York Times about a massive proposal to restructure the mouth of the Mississippi River in order to reduce the dramatic land loss that has occurred in Lousiana’s wetlands over the last century due to human construction. It will be hugely expensive and will no doubt become an engineering marvel of the modern world, and while many of the experts disagree on the exact plans they all agree that the cost of doing nothing will be much higher if sea levels rise two to three feet as expected over the next century. A quality article as usual from the NYT, I recommend you read it. There’s some good diagrams in there too.

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