Understanding these functions is key to appreciating what is lost when wetlands are destroyed” — Milton Walker Jr. MARRERO, ...

A 2024 study including a researcher from New Orleans' Tulane University discovered that a large portion of the city sits on soft, squishy soils (peat and ... rates of subsidence (sinking of ...

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 dioxide.

Globally, soils store more than twice as much carbon as the atmosphere. Therefore, carbon uptake and release by soils ...

This slow-going subsidence is measured in just a handful of millimeters per year, but rising sea levels due to climate change ...

Peat is the accumulation of partially decayed organic matter in wetlands, compressed by time into dense soils that store more carbon per hectare than any other type of landscape. When left ...

A new study using recent satellite data finds that all cities in the United States with populations of more than 600,000 are ...