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Photo - of - by David Malmquist, VIMS |  January 25, 2021 The annual update of their sea level “report cards” by researchers at William & Mary’s Virginia Institute of Marine Science adds further evidence of an accelerating rate of sea-level rise at nearly all tidal stations along the U.S. coastline. The team’s web-based report cards project sea level to the year 2050 based on an ongoing analysis of tide-gauge records for 32 localities along the U.S. coast from Maine to Alaska. The analysis now includes 52 years of water-level obser...

Rising to meet the tide Today's best articles Daily business briefing Solving COVID newsletter Christina Laughlin usually does whatever she can to avoid the flooding that plagues her neighborhood in Norfolk, Virginia, on the Chesapeake Bay. But on a blustery Sunday morning in October 2019, she donned a windbreaker and rain boots, grabbed her battered smartphone, and deliberately headed straight to the high-water line. Like her, hundreds of other locals were out and about that day, busy taking photos of the water and linking them to GPS markers during the year's highest astronomical tide, know...