Source: WILMINGTON STAR-NEWS, 5/22/17

More people will move to large inland counties, adaptation would slow coastal migrants Landlocked cities in the Old North State are likely to feel the impacts of sea-level rise -- even if coastal areas make costly adaptations, according to a University of Georgia (UGA) study.Mathew Hauer, a demographer at UGA’s Carl Vinson Institute of Government, studied how many people would be displaced by a sea-level rise of 1.8 meters -- or 5.9 feet -- between now and 2100.

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