Want to prevent California’s looming flood disaster? Grow a marsh.
Grist
OCTOBER 9, 2019
When Jones Tract, a delta island, flooded in 2004, the damage cost $90 million to fix. Fossil fuels, you might say, are an aged form of blue carbon. DWR measures the CO2 and methane emissions from the wetlands it created on Sherman Island. Nor is the flooding of delta islands unprecedented. Jonno Rattman / Bay Nature.
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