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The Piney Point

Sea level rise is reshaping a California beach town and threatening a key rail line

Sea level rise is reshaping a California beach town and threatening a key rail line
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For years, residents of this Southern California beach town could walk a mile along a stretch of cream-colored sand and dip their toes in the waves lapping ashore. That trip has been cut short. Coastal erosion has been eating away at the beach in San Clemente, known for nearly a century as a “Spa...

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