A $1.9 million Nantucket beach property sold for $200K after parts of it got swallowed by the sea

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Remote coastal beach cottages in Nantucket, Massachusetts
Remote coastal beach cottages in Nantucket, Massachusetts, in 2017.

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Homeowners spent $600,000 on a Hail Mary to save their beachfront homes from flooding. The sand dune collapsed after 3 days, and saved the homes, but was it worth it?

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Salisbury Beach MA after March 10 storm
Salisbury Beach, MA sustained significant coastal erosion after a storm swelled tides to 13.5 feet on March 10, destroying a human-made dune funded by residents.

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Scientists want to build 62-mile-long curtains around the 'doomsday glacier' for a $50 billion Hail Mary to save it

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Thwaites Glacier
The Thwaites glacier is the widest on Earth, but it's losing massive amounts of ice each year.

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