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Battered by back-to-back hurricanes Ian and Nicole, the state of Florida is preparing for rising seas, climate change, extreme rain events, storm surges, winds, tornadoes, and flooding. ....
comments This post originally appeared on Grist. Grist is a nonprofit news agency working toward a planet that doesn t burn and a future that doesn t suck. Sign up to receive Grist s top stories in your inbox. Before it was pumped, leveed, and paved, south Florida looked like a network of spongy wetlands. Over the course of about a century, those damp lowlands were transformed into a paradise for more than 9 million people, complete with a bustling tourism industry and trillions of dollars worth of infrastructure. Now, the flattest state in the union is uniquely threatened by sea-level rise: the lower third of the state could be submerged in just a few generations. The ocean is threatening to turn paved paradise back into a sponge. ....