| Since Hurricane Katrina hit Louisiana,
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| | hard wall as opposed to a soft, thick
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| Mississippi, and part of Alabama at the
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| | pillow - the baseball will bounce off a
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| end of August of 2005, global warming and
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| | wall retaining a lot of its energy, but
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| the destruction of wetlands have shared
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| | will lose its motion and its kinetic
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| in the blame for the devastation of the
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| | energy entirely in the soft give of the
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| Gulf Coast. An increase in the
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| | pillow.)NOAA (the National Oceanic and
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| temperature of the waters of the Gulf of
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| | Atmospheric Administration) recently
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| Mexico is believed to have fueled the
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| | rewarded a multimillion-dollar contract
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| storm, substantially increasing its
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| | aimed at restoring 1400 acres of wetlands
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| intensity, while the disappearance of
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| | in Louisiana's Lafourche County. The aim
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| wetlands - one U.S. Congresswoman
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| | is to restore a substantial portion of
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| estimated that fully 95 percent of U.S.
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| | the wetlands in that area, which has been
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| coastal wetlands have been destroyed by
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| | impacted negatively by construction,
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| development - has eliminated swamplands
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| | natural erosion, and subsidence (sinking
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| which have traditionally acted as a
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| | of the land because of oil extraction and
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| buffer for hurricanes.Hurricanes travel
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| | other human demands on the environment).
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| swiftly over open waters, gathering
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| | The largest wetlands restoration project
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| intensity as they absorb energy from the
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| | in the U.S. to date, it is just the
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| warm waters of tropical and subtropical
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| | beginning of a much larger restoration
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| waters. As they hit land, however, the
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| | project proposed for the region. The hope
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| hurricanes quickly lose energy as the
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| | is that these restored marshes will
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| friction of the land serves to break up
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| | ameliorate the impact of the increasingly
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| the storm and slow down the winds. Swamps
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| | powerful hurricanes originating in the
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| and estuaries, with their thick
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| | Atlantic.Aldene Fredenburg is a freelance
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| vegetation and dense, almost spongy
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| | writer living in southwestern New
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| quality, actually act as a cushion,
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| | Hampshire. She has written numerous
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| absorbing tremendous amounts of kinetic
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| | articles for local and regional
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| energy from the storm as it passes.
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| | newspapers and for a number of Internet
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| (Think of a baseball thrown against a
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| | websites, including Tips and Topics.
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