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Sun, Sand and Climate Change: The Fight to Save California’s Coast
California’s beach cities are watching their beaches thin out and eventually vanish as coastal erosion and sea-level wash sand out to sea. Meanwhile the production of new sand is blocked by inland overdevelopment. We visit one California community that’s racing against the clock to find new ways to protect its beaches from disappearing.
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