Wealthy Countries May Feel Flooding Effects More in the Future (IMAGE)

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Wealthy Countries May Feel Flooding Effects More in the Future

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This image shows four decades of coastal land and wetland loss in the Mississippi River Delta, as observed by Landsat (USGS/NASA Landsat Program). This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Aug. 7, 2015 issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Z.D. Tessler at City University of New York in New York, NY, and colleagues was titled, "Profiling risk and sustainability in coastal deltas of the world."

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[Credit: Zachary Tessler (Data: USGS/NASA Landsat Program)]

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