Geography and climate add to the challenges for the hard-hit isolated communities as the cold months draw closer.
Tag: Coastal Areas
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Are Geotubes the Answer to Nantucket’s Climate Change Threat?
In an increasingly litigious conflict, the island’s residents are clashing over how to deal with the effects of climate change: Push back or accept what’s coming?
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What Antarctica’s Disintegration Asks of Us
What if we saw Antarctica as a harbinger of transformation rather than doom?
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Rockaway Beach Is Partially Closed. That’s Not Stopping These Beachgoers
Access is restricted along a popular stretch of the beach until at least mid-July because of work to protect the shoreline from coastal flooding.
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Beach Houses on the Outer Banks Are Being Swallowed by the Sea
A neighborhood of vacation homes off the coast of North Carolina has become a symbol of the effects of rising oceans.