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Climate Change Is Coming for a Chesapeake Bay Island. Is It Worth Saving? - The Wall Street Journal

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Climate Change Is Coming for a Chesapeake Bay Island. Is It Worth Saving? - WSJ

TANGIER ISLAND, Va.—Cameron Evans, from his boat about a hundred feet offshore, hauled a wire mesh trap out of the water and shook wriggling blue crabs into a basket. Barely a decade ago, he said, that spot was solid ground. He used to hunt there for arrowheads.

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