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Fighting Mother Nature, America has spent $15.7 billion putting sand back on beaches

Fighting Mother Nature, America has spent $15.7 billion putting sand back on beaches

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It works, for a little while anyway. America is fighting rising sea levels with sand because we don't really have a better plan.

On both coasts, the United States' answer to coastal erosion is more beach sand. In just California: Newport Beach wants 200,000 cubic yards from the Santa Ana River. — Read the rest

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