Scientists warn that rising sea levels threaten San Francisco Bay’s coastal communities, which could face severe land loss without effective adaptation strategies. Santa Cruz, Barnard, a coastal-climate research director at the University of California, in a new study, has documented how rising sea levels could have a catastrophic impact on one of the United States’ most populous regions, San Francisco Bay.
But [it is] representative of the kind of challenges we have worldwide, where no one can act in isolation and fix the problem for themselves.
Published recently in the Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal, and Ocean Engineering, the study finds that San Francisco Bay communities are highly vulnerable due to the region’s low-lying terrain, which heightens their risk from sea-level rise. More than 100 cities border the San Francisco…more
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