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Climate Change Comes for the House of the Seven Gables

Inside Climate News · By Ryan Krugman · last updated
At the edge of Salem’s harbor, caretakers face a race against rising seas and intensifying storms to protect a landmark bound up in America’s literary and colonial past.

By Ryan Krugman

SALEM, Mass.—Paul Wright leans over a 17th-century granite barrier and points at a faint watermark depicting Salem Harbor’s daily rise and fall.