Miami is 'ground zero' for climate risk. People are moving to the area and building there anyway

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His clothing boutique in Miami Beach's iconic South Beach neighborhood sits just a few blocks inland from the Atlantic Ocean. Rising seas threaten to swallow much of the Miami metro area in the coming decades as the world continues to warm and faraway ice sheets melt. By 2060, about 60% of Miami-Dade County will be submerged, estimates Harold Wanless, a professor of geography…

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