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Rising seas in southern Caribbean offer dark preview of future amid climate change
2013-05-07 13:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Rising sea levels are threatening tens of thousands of people living near the coastline in the Caribbean, especially in southern island of Grenada. The old coastal road in the fishing village of Telescope 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. People here say they have been watching the sea eat away at their shoreline in recent decades, a result...
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