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• Rebuilding the New Jersey coastline, but at what cost? – ‘Do you really want to throw good money after bad?’

  
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  By JENNY ANDERSON 18 May 2013 (The New York Times) – When a handful of retired homeowners from Osborn Island in New Jersey gathered last month to discuss post-Hurricane Sandy rebuilding and environmental protection, L. Stanton Hales Jr., a conservationist, could not have been clearer about the risks they faced. ...
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• With rising seas, America’s birthplace could disappear – ‘We were thinking it’s another 100 years, another 150 years. You know, it could be much closer.’

  
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  By Christopher Joyce 14 May 2013 (NPR) – By the end of the century, the birthplace of America may be underwater. The first successful English colony in America was at Jamestown, Va., a swampy island in the Chesapeake Bay. The colony endured for almost a century, and remnants of the place still exist. You can go ...
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• Rising seas in southern Caribbean offer dark preview of future amid climate change – ‘The sea will take this whole place down’

  
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  TELESCOPE, Grenada (AP) – The old coastal road in this fishing village at the eastern edge of Grenada sits under a couple of feet of murky saltwater, which regularly surges past a hastily-erected breakwater of truck tires and bundles of driftwood intended to hold back the Atlantic Ocean. For Desmond Augustin and ...
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• Giant swamp rats are literally eating Louisiana – ‘I just don’t know how these people who love their home so much are going to go on living here’

  
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  By Joanna M. Foster 7 May 2013 (Takepart.com) – On the southern edge of Louisiana, there is almost as much water as land. You cant drive to anyones house, you have to travel by boat, and sometimes there are hours of water between neighbors. It takes a special breed to make a home here, in the swamp , amongst the ...
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• Virginia scientist finds East Coast sea levels rising at accelerating rate

  
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  GLOUCESTER POINT, 5 May 2013 (Richmond Times-Dispatch) – For years, computer simulations have predicted that climate change will cause East Coast sea levels to rise at an increasingly rapid rate. In a 2010 study, Virginia Institute of Marine Science oceanographer John Boon looked at decades of tide-gauge readings ...
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• Getting rich off global warming – ‘I predict there will be thirty to fifty-thousand climate and adaptation professionals in next decade or so’

  
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  By Alexander Zaitchik 5 May 2013 (Salon) – On the opening morning of the inaugural National Adaptation Forum, I was eating breakfast at a stand-up table in the exhibition hall when a mustachioed man of middle age plopped his cherry Danish next to my pile of conference literature, a mess of pamphlets and ...
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• Superstorm Sandy aid center on Staten Island fights order to leave – ‘Six months later, were still feeding people’

  
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  By Tina Susman 6 May 2013 NEW YORK (Los Angeles Times) – It has been six months since Donna Graziano packed a barbecue into her car, drove 15 miles from her Brooklyn home to Staten Island, and began cooking for residents of a neighborhood ravaged by Superstorm Sandy. Her one-woman effort in a seaside park ...
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• HOLY CRAP

  
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  The Advocate: HOLY CRAP Maybe somebody should do something.  It looks like a lot of people are willing to .
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