Virginia’s Changing Coasts
Virginia Wildlife, January 2010
Rising seas, raging storms, and damaging flood waters that seem to never recede. Submerged houses. Eroded barrier islands. Such coastal horrors may be reminiscent of New Orleans, but the bayou is not the only coastal region that should be paying close attention to climate change and its associated threats.
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Cristina Santiestevan is an environmental writer and communications consultant. She writes about issues as varied as clouded leopards in Thailand, climate change in American forests and mushroom foraging in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Her work appears in magazines, museum exhibits and nonprofit publications.