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Wednesday, June 24th, 2015

Interior Department Releases Report Detailing $40 Billion of National Park Assets at Risk from Sea Level Rise

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Source:     eNews Park Forest (Illinois)
Publication Date:     23 Jun 2015 04:49
Link: Interior Department Releases Report Detailing $40 Billion of National Park Assets at Risk from Sea Level Rise
Stephan:   If you read SR regularly this report about the effects of sea rise on National Parks will come as no surprise, although the size of the problem may. This is all part of the radical transformation that is occurring in the U.S. coastal regions as a result of climate change, particularly searise. The study discussed in this report is accessible through http://go.nps.gov/coastalassets.
In this Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2015 photo, the Castillio de San Marcos fort, built over 450 years ago, is separated from the Matanzas River by a sea wall in St. Augustine, Fla. St. Augustine is one of many chronically flooded Florida communities afraid their buildings and economies will be inundated by rising seas in just a couple of decades. Credit: AP/John Raoux) Photo by The Associated Press/Times Free Press.

In this Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2015 photo, the Castillio de San Marcos fort, built over 450 years ago, is separated from the Matanzas River by a sea wall in St. Augustine, Fla. St. Augustine is one of many chronically flooded Florida communities afraid their buildings and economies will be inundated by rising seas in just a couple of decades.
Credit: AP/John Raoux

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In advance of the two-year anniversary of President Obama’s Climate Action Plan, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today released a report revealing that national park infrastructure and historic […]

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