
Inform | Sea Level Rise
Sea rise along South Carolina coast accelerating faster than realized, researcher says
Cape Island in foreground, Cape Romain National Wildlife Refuge, South Carolina. Photograph courtesy of: Mary Edna Fraser, 2006 ©.
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Within 50 years, the sea off Charleston will be rising about one inch every five years — twice as fast as it was rising about a century ago and one-third faster than it was in 2000…