Another matter that has progressively compromised the Delta’s levees is subsidence — the land is sinking, an outcome of when ...

Another matter that has progressively compromised the Delta’s levees is subsidence — the land is sinking, an outcome of when peat soil is exposed to oxygen and breaks down, emitting carbon ...

Researchers at Louisiana State University’s Coastal Systems Ecology Lab, led by wetland scientist and professor Robert ...

A decade without this annual top-up, and all the fertility in the delta soils had been used up. Once the soil scientists and engineers had figured out the problem, they also had the beginnings of ...