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Smith Island is at risk from climate change, but home sales are surging

Maryland’s iconic Smith Island faces one of the nation’s most dire forecasts for rising seas, but real estate is booming.

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Just four pupils left: how the sea rose up on a Thai village

The school is on stilts, the shore has advanced by 2km – and the mangroves that used to reduce the waves have been lost for shrimp farms. How long can residents stay ahead of rising sea levels?
Picking up the bones

Picking up the bones

Moving burial grounds before the sea takes them away is painstaking and expensive. Why do we do it?

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