How rising seas could cause your next internet outage

Grist
By Greta JochemJul 16, 2018, 7:08 pm280 pts
You probably didn’t give much thought to how exactly you loaded this webpage. Maybe you clicked a link from Twitter or Facebook and presto, this article popped up on your screen. The internet seems magical and intangible sometimes. But the reality is, you rely on physical, concrete objects — like giant data…

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