Eva Tesfai
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In the first six months of last year, the Natural Resources Conservation Service lost more than 2,500 of its 12,000 employees.
Then the USDA proposed to eliminate another 3,000 next year.
An agriculture appropriations bill puts about $600 million back into NRCS, which would mean a smaller staff cut.
It still needs to clear the Senate.
For NPR News, I'm Eva Tesfai in New Orleans.
In the first six months of last year, the Natural Resources Conservation Service lost more than 2,500 of its 12,000 employees.
Then the USDA proposed to eliminate another 3,000 next year.
Andy Brown with the Louisiana Farm Bureau says NRCS offices are one of the main ways that farmers work directly with the USDA.
An agriculture appropriations bill puts about $600 million back into NRCS, which would mean a smaller staff cut.
It still needs to clear the Senate.
For NPR News, I'm Eva Tesfai in New Orleans.
The Mississippi River Delta, for example, I think that is one of the only deltas in the world where you have active relocation of people from the deltas due to land loss.
The study concludes the acceleration of sea level rise is likely due to climate change.
It directly contradicts a report released by the Department of Energy earlier this year.
That report says tide gauge measurements show no obvious acceleration of sea level rise.
Christopher Pykoosh, the oceanographer who authored the study, says that's because the DOE report relies on just a handful of tide gauges, whereas his study uses 70.
The DOE did not respond to a request for comment.
For NPR News, I'm Eva Tesfai in New Orleans.
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