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San Francisco Bay vulnerable to rising waters

Source: The Mercury News

Nuuk : Greenland | 9 months ago

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The economic threat to the state's 1,000 miles of coastline between Oregon and Mexico is of concern, but is dwarfed by the threat to the bay's shoreline, where a history of filling wetlands and building on them could be reversed by a rising sea. "No one was trying to build a mountain.

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