King Tides: What Explains High Water Threatening Global Coasts?

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King tide, March 2014, Southern California. Photo courtesy of: © Owen Scheid

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Last month, coastlines saw extreme high and low tides known as king tides, which are caused by a chance alignment of the moon, Earth, and the sun. Now the tides are back…

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