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Hill: Protecting sand dunes and coral reefs can help defend the United States’s coasts against costly extreme-weather events linked to climate change, according to a new study.
Maintaining coastal habitats could halve the people, low-income families, the elderly and total value of residential property most exposed to rising sea levels, floods and storms associated with climate change, the study concluded.
“Extreme weather, sea-level rise and degraded coastal ecosystems are placing people and property......
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Sand dunes, coral reefs protect coasts against climate change
Posted by Hill: Zack Colman on July 16th, 2013
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