Archaeologists look at creating "living shoreline," other ways to stop damage to coastal sites

Long before condominiums lined the shoreline in Miami Beach, before air conditioning, many thousands of years before Columbus, people lived along Florida's coastline.

Archaeologists say the remains of their settlements are particularly vulnerable to rising sea levels as a result of climate change.

https://www.npr.org/2020/03/10/812972727/protecting-and-preserving-ancient-sites-at-risk-from-sea-level-rise-in-florida

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