Word: coastland
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...halfway to the worst-case scenario for such catastrophic events as the melting of the Greenland ice cap, or, worse yet, the West Antarctic ice sheet. The latter event could raise sea levels a whopping 5 meters, or about 16 ft., which could drown huge swaths of low-lying coastland and essentially wipe out countries like Bangladesh and the Maldives. Modest temperature increases could also shut off key ocean currents, like the Gulf Stream, plunging Europe into a mini...
...issues of access to the forest are not a big a problem as they could be,” Prowse said. “There are other problems with companies buying up the coastland and preventing access to the rest of the country. I’d be concerned if this was prime real estate, but it’s a chunk of forest in the middle of the North Island...