Vulnerable Maryland weighs threat of sea-level rise

Washington Post: It was scary enough that a team of experts on sea-level rise projected that Maryland's coastal waters could rise to six feet in this century. But to hammer home the findings of a new report, they included a link to a Web tool that allows readers to make like a god, sliding a scale over pictures of state landmarks until a creeping tide washes them away. Maryland, with 3,100 miles of tidal shore along the Atlantic Ocean and Chesapeake Bay, is one of several states, including Virginia, Delaware,......

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