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RIP Pacific Coast Highway
Santa Monica Beach, a very wide, artificially built, and regularly maintained beach. Photographed on Sept. 9, 2019 in Santa Monica, California.
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RIP Pacific Coast Highway
You may not know this, but oftentimes in newsrooms we write obituaries ahead of time so that they're ready to publish when the person passes away. But what if the obit wasn't for a person, but for a place that's been the home of magical memories for generations?
Sea levels could rise by more than three feet by the end of the century, and that's going to mean many things you love about our coast are not going to be around much longer.
As part of our Covering Climate Now collaboration, we thought it was appropriate to start preparing an obit for one of Southern California's most prized areas of Pacific Coast Highway: Santa Monica to Malibu.
It's slated to run in 80 years or so - the year 2100.
Read the full story: Bye-bye beaches: How parts of SoCal's iconic coast could disappear in our lifetime
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