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Reuters: A Stone Age camp that used to be by the shore is now 125 miles from the Baltic Sea. Sheep graze on what was the seabed in the 15th century. And Sweden's port of Lulea risks getting too shallow for ships. In contrast to worries from the Maldives to Manhattan of storm surges and higher ocean levels caused by climate change, the entire northern part of the Nordic region is rising and, as a result, the Baltic Sea is receding.
The uplift of almost a centimetre a year, one of the highest rates in the......
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Sweden: The land of the rising coastline
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on December 2nd, 2012
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