Two U.S. coastal communities are debating the merits of staying or leaving due to effects from climate change and rising sea levels
Molly Peterson and Carolyn Beeler of PRI report on low-lying coastal communities around the world beginning to reckon with climate change and rising global sea levels. "[I]t's not just happening in far-away places like Bangladesh or the Maldives. It's happening right here in the US. On Tangier Island, Virginia, in the southern Chesapeake Bay, residents are facing the inundation of a place some local families have called home since the 1600s. They are determined to stay. On Isle de Jean Charles on the Louisiana Gulf coast, a disappearing Native American community has made the opposite decision. They are the first community to receive federal money to relocate due to climate change. It's a tale of two towns, confronting a decision no community would ever want to make, but that more and more will have to."
FULL STORY: Rising seas are washing away two US towns. How they're responding is a matter of faith, belief and money.
Pennsylvania Mall Conversion Bill Passes House
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World's Largest Wildlife Overpass In the Works in Los Angeles County
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