Source: NC CLIMATE OFFICE, 7/21/22

If this blog post series so far has taught us anything, it’s that in North Carolina’s Coastal Plain, the land has always been in a delicate dance with water, from the sea’s retreat millions of years ago through the carving and shifting of our coastal rivers over hundreds of thousands of years to the erosion and accretion of sand and sediments along the shoreline that we can see happening today.

As these changes continue and accelerate together with the warming climate, they’re making our permanent human settlements appear all the more temporary in some places, and forcing people across the state to consider what the changing coast means for all of us.

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