• 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. 

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New Study Finds 1 in 3 Rivers Have Significantly Shifted Color

• agriculture
• algal blooms
• rivers
• runoff
• sediment

by Amy Lupica, ODP Contributing Writer A new study shows that 1 in 3 rivers in the United States have significantly shifted in color since 1984. Researchers surveyed more than 108,000 kilometers of rivers at least 60 meters wide found that  56% appeared predominantly yellow and 38% appeared predominantly green. These colorations are often caused […]

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Buried Antarctic lake reveals water bears and clues to previous warming

• Antarctica
• ice core
• research
• sediment

Lake Mercer is a subglacial lake deep below the Antarctic Ice and it’s sat untouched by humans for millennia– until now. As  Nature News & Comment reported scientists drilling into a buried Antarctic lake 600 kilometers from the South Pole have found surprising signs of ancient life: the carcasses of tiny animals preserved under a kilometer of ice.