How have coastal river deltas, mangrove forests, and coastal wetlands been affected by human activity?
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Coastal river deltas, mangrove forests, and coastal wetlands provide considerable natural protection against flood and wave damage from coastal storms, hurricanes, typhoons, and tsunamis. They weaken the force of waves and absorb excess storm water like sponges. When we remove or degrade these ecosystems, any damage from a natural disaster such as a hurricane is intensified. As a result, flooding in places such as New Orleans, Louisiana, and Venice, Italy, is a largely self-inflicted unnatural disaster. Dams, levees, and hydroelectric power plants reduce flood protection provided by the coastal deltas and wetlands. Because river sediments are deposited in the reservoirs behind dams, the river deltas do not get their normal inputs of sediment to build them back up, and they subside or sink into the sea.
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