Coastal cities on the front-line of climate change

The United States is battling sea level rise on the Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific coasts. Yet the history of cities in these regions and the effects of sea level rise on them call for different approaches. These writers look at four examples of city government efforts to protect their cities and their residents from the worst effects of climate change.

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The fight against climate change: four cities leading the way in the Trump era

By Oliver Milman in New York, Joe Eskenazi in San Francisco, Richard Luscombein Miami, and Tom Dart in Houston

The Guardian

June 12, 2017