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Tangier Island’s imminent climate change demise

Study: Tangier Island’s imminent climate change demise ‘should alarm us all’

Rising seas are engulfing Tangier Island so quickly that most of its remaining residents may be forced to flee the low-lying Chesapeake Bay community during the next decade, according to a bleak new assessment published Nov. 8 in Frontiers of Climate.

Louisiana’s coastal vulnerabilities
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These six factors explain why Louisiana is rapidly losing land; see graphics

Land loss in parts of Louisiana is occurring at a rate equivalent to one football field every 100 minutes. How is that happening?
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