Coastal living, once idealized in the U.S., could soon become a precarious proposition as the climate warms.
Rising sea levels are threatening, and will continue to threaten, those who've made their residences on the imperiled boundary between land and ocean. Estimates of sea level rise put metropolises like New York City, Miami and Los Angeles at high risk of dangerous floods by the end of this century, putting the future of millions of residents in jeopardy.
Many of those people will undoubtedly choose to leave for higher ground. For researchers and city planners alike, the looming question is where they will go.
A new study in PLOS One helps give us some answers. Pairing models of migration and climate change with machine learning, the researchers find that some 13 million people will be on the move by the year 2100. Large cities like Houston, Dallas and Atlanta will absorb many ...
