• Land

Build Up Wetlands, Save The Hot Sauce

• Louisiana
• marshes
• sealevel rise
• wetlands

by Ashira Morris, ODP Staff Writer Louisiana loses almost a football field of land each day, caused by a combination of climate change-fueled sea level rise, reduced sediment flow from the Mississippi River, and the land gradually sinking. One area that’s not slipping underwater: Avery Island, the birthplace of Tabasco hot sauce that’s still the […]

• Air

Study Finds That Half of All Methane Emissions Come from Aquatic Ecosystems

• aquatic ecosystems
• climate change
• man-made
• marshes
• methane
• methane gas
• ponds
• reservoirs
• wetlands

By Amy Lupica, ODP Staff Writer A new paper published Monday in the journal Nature Geoscience found that up to half of the global methane emissions come from aquatic ecosystems and man-made water sources like flooded agricultural land, ponds, wetlands, reservoirs, and salt marshes. Experts say that these emissions have gone uncounted for too long […]

• Water

Environmental Assessment Furthers Louisiana’s Climate Adaptation Goal

• climate adaptation
• diversions
• marshes
• Mississippi River
• New Orleans
• sediment
• wetlands

The Army Corps of Engineers last week released an environmental impact assessment for the nation’s largest climate adaptation plan to date, which would help to restore the Louisiana coastline using money paid by BP as part of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill settlement. 

Why This Matters: The Louisiana coastline is sinking at an alarming rate — a football field an hour.