California Plans Nation’s Most Detailed Sea Level Database

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Water sweeping across beachfront homes, Malibu, California. Captions and Photo source: ©© LA Waterkeeper

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When you’ve got tens of millions of people living close to more than 1,000 miles of coastline, it could help to closely track the slews of steps being taken to protect homes, ports, roads, and other infrastructure from rising seas…

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From Coast To Coast, Vanity Fair (07-23-2013)
At opposite ends of the country, two of America’s most golden coastal enclaves are waging the same desperate battle against erosion…

City of Santa Barbara Sea-Level Rise Vulnerability Assessment: A summary Report(02-16-2011)

As The Seas Rise, A Slow-Motion Disaster Gnaws At America’s Shores – Part I, Reuters (09-05-2014)

Rising Seas Will Affect Major U.S. Coastal Cities by 2100, University Of Arizona (02-16-2011)

Too Big to Flood? Megacities Face Future of Major Storm Risk, Yale E360 (01-12-2013)
As economic activity and populations continue to expand in coastal urban areas, particularly in Asia, hundreds of trillions of dollars of infrastructure, industrial and office buildings, and homes are increasingly at risk from intensifying storms and rising sea levels…

NOAA Analysis Reveals Significant Land Cover Changes in U.S. Coastal Regions, NOAA(08-19-2014)
A new NOAA nationwide analysis shows that between 1996 and 2011, 64,975 square miles in coastal regions, an area larger than the state of Wisconsin, experienced changes in land cover, including a decline in wetlands and forest cover with development a major contributing factor…

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