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A Warmer World

Wetlands or housing? Climate change pressures shoreline development plans.

by Ezra Romero

Dec 22, 2023

In California, a fight is brewing over whether to build middle-class homes or restore wetlands that could mitigate flood risk.

The city of Newark, California, could move to restore wetlands instead of building hundreds of houses. The development could ease the housing shortage, but the land could mitigate flooding as the seas rise.

Courtesy Derell Licht

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