[MCN] Rising seas -> U.S. isn't prepared for mass migration.

[Lance Olsen]

Millions of Americans may be pushed away from the coast in the coming years, and the U.S. isn't prepared <https://link.mail.bloombergbusiness.com/click/15257762.18631/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYmxvb21iZXJnLmNvbS9uZXdzL2FydGljbGVzLzIwMTgtMTEtMjMvY2xpbWF0ZS1tYXktZm9yY2UtbWlsbGlvbnMtdG8tbW92ZS1hbmQtdS1zLWlzbi10LXJlYWR5LXJlcG9ydD91dG1fbWVkaXVtPWVtYWlsJnV0bV9zb3VyY2U9bmV3c2xldHRlciZ1dG1fdGVybT0xODExMjgmdXRtX2NhbXBhaWduPWNsaW1hdGVjaGFuZ2Vk/58ffbaf7dd4c29967b8b4646Bdf4af85d> for the consequences of such a mass migration.


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3 from Nature’s December 2013 Special Issue on coasts.

Public Release: 4-Dec-2013
Nature
Humans threaten wetlands' ability to keep pace with sea-level rise

Left to themselves, coastal wetlands can withstand rapid levels of sea-level rise. But humans could be sabotaging some of their best defenses, according to a Nature review paper published Thursday from from the Virginia Institute of Marine Science and the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center.


Public Release: 4-Dec-2013
 Nature
Sea level rise and shoreline changes are lead influences on floods from tropical cyclones

Writing in the current special issue of Nature dedicated to coastal regions, UMass Amherst geoscientist Woodruff, with co-authors Jennifer Irish of Virginia Tech University and Suzana Camargo of Columbia University, say, "Society must learn to live with a rapidly evolving shoreline that is increasingly prone to flooding from tropical cyclones."


Public Release: 4-Dec-2013
Nature
Sea-level rise to drive coastal flooding, regardless of changes in hurricane activity

Clamor about whether climate change will cause increasingly destructive tropical storms may be overshadowing a more unrelenting threat to coastal property -- sea-level rise -- according to a team of researchers writing in the journal Nature this week.

 

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