{"id":747,"date":"2014-09-07T15:47:27","date_gmt":"2014-09-07T19:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=747"},"modified":"2021-10-18T11:15:29","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T15:15:29","slug":"chincoteague-a-case-study-in-sea-level-rise-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2014\/09\/chincoteague-a-case-study-in-sea-level-rise-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Chincoteague a case study in sea level rise issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Yahoo News<\/em> posted a story yesterday from<em> Reuters<\/em> on Chincoteague Island in Virginia, the gateway to a national wildlife refuge located on a \u00a0barrier island with a mile-long beach. \u00a0The story describes the trends in sea level along the island and the varied reactions from these trends and responses to the potential loss in beach extent, wildlife habitat, tourist dollars and infrastructure. \u00a0If you are in a county that is near the coast, you may be interested in the difficult discussions that are being held by townspeople, government regulators, and environmentalists and the lack of easy answers. \u00a0You can read the story by clicking <a title=\"Chincoteague sea level rise\" href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/special-report-seas-rise-slow-motion-disaster-gnaws-190730455.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yahoo News posted a story yesterday from Reuters on Chincoteague Island in Virginia, the gateway to a national wildlife refuge located on a \u00a0barrier island with a mile-long beach. \u00a0The story describes the trends in sea level along the island and the varied reactions from these trends and responses to the potential loss in beach [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-coastal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=747"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22799,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747\/revisions\/22799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}