Climate change and the Coastal United States

The risks of climate change play out in different ways along the United States’ more than 94,000 miles of coastline, but all coasts share one simple fact: no other region concentrates so many people and so much economic activity on so little land, while also being so relentlessly affected by the sometimes violent interactions of land, sea, and air. This brief presentation highlights observed and expected impacts on coastal infrastructure, economic activity, human communities and ecosystems, and synthesizes progress on adaptation.