SPECIAL | America's East Coast is sinking
The Excerpt
USA TODAY
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🗓️ 14 March 2024
⏱️ 12 minutes
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As the eastern seaboard slowly drops lower each year, it is compounding the impacts of climate change in the U.S. Rising sea levels and severe weather events mean coastal cities will have to adapt or perhaps even be abandoned. How bad is it? Who is most at risk here, and most importantly, what can we do about it? Kenneth Miller, professor of earth and planetary sciences at Rutgers University, joins The Excerpt to dig into how sinking land mass could mean disaster for some parts of the world.
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| 0:08.0 | Hello and welcome to The Excerpt. I'm Dana Taylor. Today is Thursday March 14th, 2024 and this is a special episode of the |
| 0:19.4 | excerpt. The East Coast is quite literally sinking, slowly to be sure, but it is compounding the impacts of climate change as sea levels rise and severe weather |
| 0:35.2 | events become more frequent. |
| 0:37.3 | How bad is it? |
| 0:38.5 | Who is most at risk here? |
| 0:40.0 | And most importantly, what can we do about it. |
| 0:42.8 | Joining me to dig into these topics in more detail is Kenneth Miller, |
| 0:46.4 | professor of Earth and planetary sciences at Rutgers University. |
| 0:50.7 | Kenneth, thanks for joining me. |
| 0:52.2 | Great to be here, thank you. |
| 0:54.0 | Let's talk about the fact that the East Coast is sinking. |
| 0:57.0 | What are the causes and why should we be concerned? |
| 1:00.0 | I think many people understand the idea of compaction that if you walk across the |
| 1:07.2 | beach the sedums compact underneath your feet if you take a bucket of sand from |
| 1:12.1 | by the ocean and you walk across the beach with it, it's not as filled |
| 1:16.4 | when you get to the edge of the beach as it was when you, because the sand is compacted, |
| 1:20.7 | and water's been driven off. That's a natural process that can be made |
| 1:25.7 | worse by humans. If we pump groundwater or if we pump oil or gas out of a place, |
| 1:32.2 | we've taken out the fluid. The grains move |
| 1:35.1 | closer together and compact. So that's one process. The other process, it's got a |
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