Rising seas could wipe out $1 trillion worth of U.S. homes and businesses

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By Eric HolthausJun 18, 2018, 10:01 am134 pts
Some 2.4 million American homes and businesses worth more than $1 trillion are at risk of “chronic inundation” by the end of the century, according to a report out Monday. That’s about 15 percent of all U.S. coastal real estate, or roughly as much built infrastructure as Houston and Los Angeles combined.…

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