Surrendering to Rising Seas – Scientific American
Credit: Grant Delin.
Article Synopsis – Along the East Coast, communities struggling to adapt to climate change are beginning to do what was once unthinkable: retreat. “Within a few decades, as saltwater begins to regularly block roads, kill wetlands, disrupt power supplies, bury popular beaches, undermine houses and turn common rainstorms into perilous floods, the most vulnerable pockets of coastal towns will become uninhabitable.” In their attempt to adapt to these changing conditions, New Jersey started a program called Blue Acres in which the government buys repeatedly flooded property, demolishes it, and restores the natural ecology of the land to mitigate flood risk for the rest of the community. To read the actual article click here.