Rising Seas May Force U.S. Climate Refugees to the Same 5 Cities

But even if people escape sea-level rise, they’ll have other climate-related dangers to deal with

Drew Costley
OneZero
Published in
6 min readFeb 7, 2020

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A satellite Google Earth view of the North American continent.
Credit: Google Earth

TThe year after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in 2005, over 60,000 families were forced to relocate to other parts of the country. Nearly 10,000 of them ended up in Houston. Since then…

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Drew Costley
OneZero

Drew Costley is a Staff Writer at FutureHuman covering the environment, health, science and tech. Previously @ SFGate, East Bay Express, USA Today, etc.