Eroding Edges Stories
The edges of our country are eroding, raising difficult questions about adaptation, relocation, and what it means to be an American experiencing climate change today. To connect the shared experiences of Americans facing these dramatic transformations, the National Trust has partnered with Victoria Herrmann, a National Geographic Explorer, as she travels around the U.S. and its territories interviewing communities directly affected by shoreline erosion and climate change.
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Preservation Magazine The Quest to Save a Fragile Florida Island With a Difficult History -
America's Eroding Edges A Delicate Balance of Commerce and Climate Change in Nome, Alaska -
America's Eroding Edges Fighting The Rising Tide In Shaktoolik, Alaska -
America's Eroding Edges When The Seawall Breaks: Climate Change In Teller, Alaska -
America's Eroding Edges Self-Preservation: Amid Debate, An Alaskan Village Decides to Move Inland -
America's Eroding Edges A Continual State of Emergency -
America's Eroding Edges The Disappearing Tradition of Whale Hunting in Point Hope, Alaska -
America's Eroding Edges Subsistence, A Way of Life -
America's Eroding Edges Frontier of Change -
America's Eroding Edges “They Should Know to Keep Them” -
America's Eroding Edges "Back to Our Backyards" -
America's Eroding Edges Land and Blood: Samoan Identity and Climate Change
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