Losing the ground beneath their feet

• Autores: Jeff Hecht
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2539, 2006, págs. 8-9
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Hurricane Katrina, which ravaged New Orleans and displaced more than a half a million people, underlined just how dangerous living in a flood-prone delta can be. By 2050, some researchers believe that millions more living in low-lying river deltas will be equally vulnerable to rising sea levels, sinking and storms. Jason Ericson at the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation in Richmond, and his colleagues identified five other deltas that could face similar, if not more devastating, disasters: the Bangladesh delta in Bangladesh, the Yangtze delta in china, the Mekong delta in Vietnam, the Nile delta in Egypt, and the Godavari delta in India.