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May 14, 2013

Rising seas threaten Caribbean islands

  • Computer models estimate a 3-foot rise by 2100, which would displace 110,000 people, and could innundate 150 tourist resorts, 21 regional airports and about 5 percent of the land in the Bahamas.
    • By DAVID McFADDEN
    Associated Press

    TELESCOPE, Grenada — The old coastal road in this fishing village at the eastern edge of Grenada sits under a couple of feet of murky saltwater, which regularly surges past a hastily-erected breakwater of truck tires and bundles of driftwood intended to hold back the Atlantic Ocean.

    For Desmond Augustin and other fishermen living along the shorelines of the southern Caribbean island, there's nothing theoretical about the threat of rising sea levels.


     
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