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North Carolina Beaches Will Retreat Relatively Quickly in the Decades Ahead

"A new study of the potential sand losses to North Carolina beaches reports that a 1-foot rise in sea level in the next 25 to 75 years (which is at the lower end of the range predicted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) would cause the coast to move inland by 2,000 to 10,000 feet..." - excerpt from this Live Science article.

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