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Climate change threatens Chesapeake Bay island faster than thought

Tangier Island, home to a Virginia fishing town and about 400 people, could be saturated by rising seas and convert to uninhabitable wetlands by 2051.

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Climate change threatens Chesapeake Bay island faster than thought

A new study found that Tangier Island is losing ground faster than previously thought, highlighting how climate change threatens U.S. coastal communities.

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The country's first climate change casualties?
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The country's first climate change casualties?

Scientists predict Tangier Island could be uninhabitable within 25 years. This is the story of the people willing to go down with it—and why they've risked it all on Donald Trump to keep them afloat.
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The communities losing ground to climate change

The communities losing ground to climate change

In Tangier Island, Virginia, and Joal, Senegal, rising sea levels and temperatures are already erasing a way of life.
Climate change: Republicans visit Trump supporters on Tangier Island
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Climate change: Republicans visit Trump supporters on Tangier Island

This summer, a delegation of Republican climate activists visited Tangier Island, Virginia to talk to residents about climate change.
‘I’ll never leave this place, and I hope this place will never leave me’
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‘I’ll never leave this place, and I hope this place will never leave me’

Even though repeated promises of a seawall have failed to materialize, teen and Tangier's other residents refuse to give up hope.

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