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Environment
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11/01/09
BLACKWATER NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE - Tens of thousands of migrating waterfowl, one of the nation's largest populations of breeding bald eagles and the endangered Delmarva fox squirrel all call Cambridge's Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge home. Find Us On Facebook
And all are vulnerable to the rising sea levels that threaten coastal marshland.
The Chesapeake Bay is experiencing sea level rise at a rate twice the global average, and the thin ribbons of marshes and wetlands that form along coastlines--Blackwater, Smith Island, Assateague Island--will be the first to be flooded with rising water. Flooded marshland means the loss of land...
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