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Rising

Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore by Elizabeth Rush

September 29, 2019September 13, 2018 by Jacki Skole
Cover of Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore by Elizabeth Rush

In 2012, on assignment in Bangladesh researching a story on the world’s longest border fence, journalist Elizabeth Rush “inadvertently” became interested in sea level rise. By 2015, she’d become obsessed. …

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