The dilemma of the levees. The sense of just how much the world had changed for the Army Corps of Engineers struck Daniel Hitchings in a tense conference call last month. [News Source]

Loss of coastal wetlands exacts hefty price. Hurricane Katrina offered just one taste of what happens when people crowd a vulnerable, overdeveloped coastline, racked by powerful storms, rising seas, eroding beaches and vanishing wetlands. [News Source]