#podelta — Public Fediverse posts
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A combination of centuries of farming, but more recently gas mining activity and less rainfall/river flows, have caused land to sink 3 metres below sea level. Salt infiltration has advanced inland, shrinking agriculturally productive land area - particularly for the traditional rice crop.
Isola Barria (see image), an old German fort, is now mostly submerged by the sea...
#PoDelta #Subsidence #farming #GasMining #ClimateChange #Drought
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''If the sea rises we’ll have to leave’: plans to restart #GasDrilling threaten #Italy’s sinking delta
Sixty years after fatal #floods and #subsidence halted #GasExtraction in the #PoDelta region, politicians are once again eyeing #methane reserves. But at what cost to one of the #Mediterranean’s largest #wetlands and the people who live there?
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/04/if-the-sea-rises-well-have-to-leave-plans-to-restart-gas-drilling-threaten-italys-sinking-delta
#ClimateCrisis #DontLookUp #FossilFuels #Environment
