England Is Losing Its Coastline Faster Than Ever
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Walk the Cleveland Way near Whitby and you'll see warning signs telling you to stay away from the edge — because the edge itself is disappearing. This coastline is one of the fastest-eroding in all of Europe, losing up to 4 meters of land a year, sometimes 20 meters in a single storm. Whole villages have already vanished this way — one lost its main road in 1780, another lost most of itself in a single storm in 1829. Government data now predicts hundreds more homes will be gone by 2105 — and some as soon as this year. Credit: elso-tv / Reddit CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0: Happisburgh coastal erosion: By Andrew Dunn - http://www.andrewdunnphoto.com/, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1343146 The Cleveland Way: By The Cleveland Way [2] by Michael Dibb - https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5600768, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=139436669 CC BY-SA 2.5 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5: Robin Hoods Bay from th
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