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Rebuilding the coastline, but at what cost?

2013-05-19 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

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. I said, look people, you built on a marsh island, its oxidizing under your feet its shrinking and that exacerbates the sea level rise, said Dr. Hales, director of the Barnegat Bay Partnership, an estuary program financed by the Environmental...

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