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Rhode Island's Built Coastline Faces Harsh Climate Reality
Original: Harsh Reality Awaits Ocean State’s Human-Built Coastline
Rhode Island, known as the Ocean State, is confronting the limits of its heavily engineered shoreline. Environmental reporting warns that seawalls, hardened shores and coastal development cannot hold back rising seas and intensifying storms indefinitely, and that communities may need to rethink how and where they build along Narragansett Bay as erosion and flooding worsen.
Why now: Concerns over sea level rise and coastal flooding are pushing Rhode Island to reconsider its engineered shoreline.
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