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Mississippi - Released 23/02/2007 2:46 pm - Copyright ESA The
Mississippi River Delta empties sediment into the Gulf of Mexico
in this Envisat image acquired on 6 February 2007 with its
Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) instrument. Over
the last several decades, however, the delta’s sediment load has
been drastically reduced by natural and man-made factors,
causing extensive land loss, which is mostly wetland loss. If
this process continues at the current pace, Louisiana could be
left with less than 5 percent of the wetlands it had in the
1930s. As wetlands erode, parts of Louisiana, such as New
Orleans (the light yellow crescent just below the inland lake,
Lake Pontchartrain), become completely exposed to storms coming
in from the gulf.