Sea level rise will swallow Miami, New Orleans - study

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October 15, 2015

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Say goodbye to Miami and New Orleans. No matter what we do to curb global warming, these and other beloved US cities will sink below rising seas, according to a study today. But making extreme carbon cuts and moving to renewable energy could save millions of people living in iconic coastal areas of the United States, said the findings in the October 12 edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a peer-reviewed US journal.

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Sea level rise will swallow Miami, New Orleans - study. (2015, October 15). Manila Times, p. A6.