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Living with a changing coast in Devon and Dorset

Posted by: Jane Lavick, Posted on: 16 April 2014 - Categories: Climate change, Fisheries and biodiversity, Flood, Water
A boy studies our flooded house model

The unrelenting storms of this winter clearly highlighted the scale of damage and disruption that can be wreaked on our coastline by Mother Nature, at her most ferocious. Whilst it wasn't the first time that the Dawlish railway line was severed, (it …

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