Rapidly Rising Sea Levels Along US Coastline Cause Concerns for Future
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The Journal Nature Communications has published a new study that reveals that sea levels along the US coastline have been rising rapidly over the last 12 years.
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Since 2010, the coastline along the southeastern US & the Gulf Coast has risen half an inch every year.
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Throughout this period, the rates of the rising sea level along these coastlines have been exceptionally higher than the rest of the world.
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Owing to warming & changing wind patterns, the waters in this area have been expanding rapidly.
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Hitting some of their highest rates in more than a century, sea levels have surged along the coastlines of the Southeastern US.
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About triple the global average, sea levels have risen more than a centimeter a year over the last decade.
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Increased flooding, more severe hurricanes, & eroding shorelines are the forms of erosion that the communities near the Gulf of Mexico & Atlantic Ocean are experiencing.
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An expert in coastal engineering at Tulane University & lead author of the study, Sonke Dangendorf, said, "We have seen the impacts quite significantly".
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The span of the affected region is from the western Gulf up to Cape Hatteras in North Carolina.
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