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Photos of ‘king tides’ globally show risks of climate change

DEPOE BAY, Ore – Tourists, nature lovers and amateur scientists are whipping out their cameras to document the effects of extreme high tides on shorelines from the United States to New Zealand, and by doing so are helping better predict what rising sea levels will mean for coastal communities around the world. A network of volunteer photographers fans out around the globe during so-called king tides to capture how high the waterline gets and where the water goes.

 

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