Lessons from California on how to adapt to sea level rise

Published on wbur
September 26, 2023

The Pacific Ocean off the California coast could rise more than six feet by the end of this century, according to some estimates.

"We have a lot of time before some of these big changes. I mean, you could say 2100, you know, I'm not even going to be alive in 2100," Charles Lester, director of the Ocean and Coastal Policy Center in the Marine Science Institute at UC Santa Barbara, says.