Tagged: Outer Banks

Science & Environment
4:37 pm
Thu August 30, 2012

Rising Seas Endanger Outer Banks, Atlantic Coast

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View of the cost from the Cape Hatteras lighthouse.

Large areas of the Outer Banks and elsewhere along the Atlantic Coast are in danger because of rising seas. That’s according to a recent report on climate change by two environmental groups.

Here’s what a beach vacation to Cape Hatteras or Cape Lookout might be like later this century:

"The summers could average as hot as those in Galveston, Texas, and it is well over half of the land out there that is vulnerable to being covered by a rising sea," said Stephen Saunders, the report's lead author.

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