Rise for climate belgium

The process of relocating people from New Orleans should start immediately, as the city has reached a “point of no return” that will see it surrounded by the ocean within decades due to the climate crisis, a stark new study has concluded. Ongoing sea-level rise and the rampant erosion of wetlands in southern Louisiana will swallow up the New Orleans area within a few generations, with the new paper estimating the city “may well be surrounded by the Gulf of Mexico before the end of this century”.

We moeten wetlands herstellen als barrière tussen steden en de zee, schrijven Francisco García Sánchez en Dhanapal Govindarajulu. De onderzoekers trekken lessen voor Valencia en andere kuststeden uit eerdere grote overstromingen in de Indiase steden Chennai en Kochi.