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Geotimes
August 2007
Megan Sever |
Restoring the River Since Katrina struck, one thing has become clear, researchers say: Restoration of the natural system is of paramount importance to saving New Orleans in the long run, and the time to act is now.   |
Scientific American
October 24, 2005
Mark Fischetti |
Flood Control Protecting against the Next Katrina: Wetlands mitigate flooding, but are they too damaged in the gulf? |
Geotimes
November 2005
Naomi Lubick |
Louisiana's Marshland Mess Even before the past season's devastating hurricanes, Louisiana's wetlands were in rough shape. More than a century of building dams, levees and canals to control the Mississippi River changed the wetlands, limiting sediment and leading to soil compaction from the loss of vegetation. |
Geotimes
September 2005
Naomi Lubick |
Water Covers New Orleans As Hurricane Katrina dissipated on its way toward the northeastern United States on Tuesday, the threat only grew for this and other Gulf towns. Monday afternoon's seeming reprieve in New Orleans evaporated as two breached levees flooded the city. |
BusinessWeek
June 9, 2011
Peter Heller |
The Mississippi River Flood and the Katrina Risk New Orleans and Baton Rouge are one breached levee away from Katrina-like devastation. Can the Army Corps of Engineers save them? |
Geotimes
May 2004
Swarzenski & Campbell |
Tracking Contaminants Down the Mississippi The U.S. Geological Survey is working with scientists from various universities and state agencies to investigate the historic downstream delivery of sediment-associated contaminants into the Gulf of Mexico. |
Geotimes
August 2006
Megan Sever |
When Levees Fail Many of the levees in the United States were built more than a century ago to protect farmland, and have been negligibly, if at all, maintained. For New Orleans, such a lesson came too late, but the city can still plan for the future. |
Geotimes
October 2006
Megan Sever |
Pinpointing Louisiana's Natural Sinking Although scientists have yet to agree on a rate, new research is shedding light on exactly what could be causing Louisiana's sinking. For residents of the hurricane-prone state, such information cannot come soon enough. |
Popular Mechanics
March 2006 |
Now What? The lessons of Katrina |
Geotimes
August 2005
Megan Sever |
Confusion Over Sinking Coasts in Gulf A new federal report states that land in Louisiana and probably throughout the Gulf Coast has been sinking at a relative rate of more than 1.5 meters (5 feet) per century for at least the last 100 years -- a rate significantly higher than previous reports have shown. |
Wired
December 22, 2008
David Wolman |
Before the Levees Break: A Plan to Save the Netherlands Global warming is a cause for serious concern in low-lying countries. The Dutch aren't waiting for a catastrophe; they're taking measures to solve the problem now. |
BusinessWeek
May 25, 2011
Duane Stanford |
Trade Slows as the Mississippi River Floods Delivery times for shipments of grain and other valuable commodities are slowing as floods raise the level of the Mississippi. |
Geotimes
December 2003
Megan Sever |
La Nina controls Amazon floodplain A team of geologists linked the floodplain depositional layers to rapidly rising floods that occur during La Nina events in Bolivia. Rather than corresponding to annual flooding events in the rainforests, each large sediment influx corresponded to a La Nina event in the historic record. |
Popular Mechanics
September 2008
Erik Sofge |
Thinking Beyond Levees, Experts Turn to New Flood Software Three-dimensional maps incorporating up to date topographic and climate data can better predict regions prone to flooding. |
Popular Mechanics
December 2005
Benjamin Chertoff |
Katrina Images Pictures of New Orleans, southern Louisiana and the Mississippi Gulf Coast during an intensive examination of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. |
Geotimes
August 2005
Naomi Lubick |
Hurricane Katrina Hits Hard One of the largest hurricanes to make landfall in the U.S. Gulf Coast region since Hurricane Camille in 1969, Hurricane Katrina left a trail of devastation behind it as it touched down in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2008
Wilson & Keliger |
Flood or Hurricane Protection?: The New Orleans Levee System and Hurricane Katrina Why was the New Orleans levee system so vulnerable to failure in Hurricane Katrina? |
Real Estate Portfolio
May/Jun 2006
Lorna Pappas |
Opportunity & Optimism After last years devastating hurricanes, the Gulf Coast rebuilds. With rebuilding comes tremendous investment opportunities for those with vision and patience, and the first to act may be getting the best deals. |
Geotimes
January 2005
Naomi Lubick |
Grand Canyon Floods On Nov. 21, the Department of the Interior approved a release of water from the Glen Canyon Dam in an attempt to rebuild the beaches and other sedimentary environments. |
BusinessWeek
August 20, 2007
Aston & Arndt |
If The Levees Fail In California... Officials are relying on a groundbreaking threat-assessment model devised by a team of 300 top scientists and engineers organized after Hurricane Katrina. |
Outside
March 2007 |
Biking New Orleans, Louisiana Do not bike along the muddy Mississippi levee near New Orleans for clean air or beautiful vistas. Bike the 120 miles for the memories it invokes. |
The Motley Fool
August 30, 2005
Tim Beyers |
Katrina Blows Off Airlines More bad news for carriers as the hurricane cancels scores of flights. In the face of all this, airline stocks have cratered, naturally. |
Popular Mechanics
October 27, 2009
Adam Hadhazy |
How California's New Water Laws Inform the Coming National Crisis As California withers through a third year of drought, state lawmakers have been recalled to Sacramento for a special legislative session to try and squelch a decades-in-the-making water crisis. |
Geotimes
October 2006
Jennifer Yauck |
River Bends Reveal Past Quakes The connection between river courses and earthquake activity is allowing seismologists to look at past earthquakes along a Midwestern fault zone with new perspective, and could enable them to more accurately assess future earthquake risk in the Mississippi region. |
Foundation News & Commentary
Nov/Dec 2005
Allan R. Clyde |
A Conversation with Ben Johnson An interview with the Greater New Orleans Foundation President and CEO on the status of the foundation, race and class issues, and the opportunities facing philanthropy in the rebuilding of this community. |
BusinessWeek
August 2, 2004
Brian Grow |
Can Delta Carry Song's Tune? The faltering airline company Delta Air may remake itself along the lines of its low-cost subsidiary Song. |
Popular Mechanics
June 19, 2008
Emily Gertz |
As Flood Waters Rise, Geeks Aim to Save Midwest With 3D Rig Digital models of possible flood outcomes might just help prevent developers from building in the most vulnerable spots around the country's biggest and most dangerous river. |
Outside
August 2003
Peter Heller |
Good Old Boy Gone Good He grew up poaching alligators, he sells Cadillacs, and his friends run oil companies. But saving the bayous of Louisiana's Atchafalaya Basin is Harold Schoeffler's number-one deal. |
BusinessWeek
December 8, 2003
Michael Arndt |
Delta: Coffee, Tea, And Pay Cuts? New CEO Grinstein needs to win concessions from pilots. It's no easy feat. |
National Real Estate Investor
October 1, 2006
Steve McLinden |
Space Crunch In a city facing one of the most profound real estate challenges in modern history, the opportunities and impasses seem to square off against one another in almost every neighborhood, and the New Orleans-area multifamily sector is no exception. |
The Motley Fool
November 3, 2004
Bill Mann |
Delta's Aborted Crash Landing Delta gets a little lift in the form of some cash infusions and concessions. Since mid-October shares have more than doubled, from a low of $2.75 on Oct. 20 to a current price just shy of $6. |
Popular Mechanics
February 2006
Susan Tweit |
Can't We Just Blow It Up? The world's biggest dam removal will return Washington's Elwha River to its free-flowing state. But the colossal three-year project proves there's a lot more to deconstruction than tons of TNT. |
The Motley Fool
February 11, 2011
Isac Simon |
A Change for Delta Petroleum A stay of execution for one oil & gas firm. |
