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Australia's coastal living is at risk from sea level rise, but it's happened before

  • Written by Sean Ulm, Deputy Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, James Cook University
Australia's coastline has moved before thanks to changes in sea level.Flickr/Travellers travel photobook, CC BY

With global sea levels expected to rise by up to a metre by 2100 we can learn much from archaeology about how people coped in the past with changes in sea level.

In a study published this week in Quaternary Science Reviews, we looked at...

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